Midvash

סִיוָןÇîyvân

proper name: Siwan, of 3rd month (Nehemiah 1:1; Esther 8:9)

Pronunciation: see-vawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5510

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

  • Esther 8:9 So on June 25 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Mordecai dictated. It was sent to the Jews and to the highest officers, the governors, and the nobles of all the 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia. The decree was written in the scripts and languages of all the peoples of the empire, including that of the Jews.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).