NOUN
- the third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December)
How To Use Kislev In A Sentence
- Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
- The lengths of most of the months are fixed as given in the following table, but any adjustment necessary can be effected either by adding one day to Heshvan, which has usually twenty-nine days, or taking away one day from Kislev, which has usually thirty -- The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
- Hesvan (Heshwan) or subtracted from the month Kislev (Kislew), as need arose, in order to keep the months in agreement with the moon; secondly, eight years out of every nineteen were made "embolismic", i.e. an intercalary month seems to have been introduced when necessary, at this point, in order to prevent the 14th day of Nisan from arriving too early. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- Since those times the Tzar of Kislev and the Emperor have forged a common alliance against the threat of Chaos.
- Since those times the Tzar of Kislev and the Emperor have forged a common alliance against the threat of Chaos.
- Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
- With the last of the Kislevite armies defeated, the Chaos hordes advanced upon Praag and laid siege to the city.
- Under the Old Julian calendar , the popular choice of 5 BC for the year of Jesus's birth would place the 25th of Kislev on the 25th of November.
- Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev.
- Since those times the Tzar of Kislev and the Emperor have forged a common alliance against the threat of Chaos.
