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Bul (eighth month name, October-November)
The Canaanite name for the eighth month of the year, corresponding roughly to October-November in modern calendars, or Marcheswan in the later Jewish calendar. The name appears in the account of Solomon's temple completion, which occurred in this month. The term is pre-Israelite Phoenician, part of the Canaanite month-naming system Israel used before adopting Babylonian names during the exile. Phoenician inscriptions confirm the month name's broader use.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Designates the eighth month in 1 Kings 6:38, when Solomon's temple was completed after seven years of construction. The archaic Canaanite month name (versus later Babylonian "Marcheswan") indicates the early date and Phoenician cultural context of Solomon's era. The phrase "in the month Bul, which is the eighth month" shows the need to explain the old name to later readers familiar with numbered months. 1×
AR["بُولَ"]·ben["বূল"]·DE["Bul"]·EN["Bul"]·FR["Bul"]·heb["בול"]·HI["बूल"]·ID["Bul"]·IT["Bul"]·jav["Bul"]·KO["불의"]·PT["Bul"]·RU["Бул"]·ES["Bul"]·SW["yeye"]·TR["Bul"]·urd["بُل"]
Related Senses
H3117 1. day, specific time (2231×)H5704 1. until, unto, as far as (1238×)H8141 1. year, unit of time (880×)H6258 1. and now (421×)G2250 1. day (388×)H5750 1. again, more, further (288×)H5769 1. forever, to eternity (280×)H6256 1. time, period (264×)H2320 1. month, calendar period (260×)H0310a 2. after (temporal) (258×)H3915 1. night, period of darkness (234×)H1242 1. morning (214×)H5750 2. still, yet (continuative) (166×)G5119 1. then (160×)G3568 1. now (147×)G2193 1. until (143×)G3825 1. (141×)G3752 1. (123×)H6153 1. evening, time of day (123×)H0227a 1. then (122×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. בּוּל n.[m.] Bul, 8th month = Marcheswan, Assyrian Araḫ samna, 1 K 6:38 הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי בְּיֶרַח בּוּל הוּא; (Canaanitish; Ph. ירח בל; a Palm. god is בול (in n.pr. עבדבול, Vog93 זבדבול etc.) & ירחבול (Vog93, moon-god), which DHMBer. Wien. Akkadian cviii. 977 connects with Heb. בּוּל; BaeRel. 87 f. (q.v.) thinks = בעל, cf. Thes p. 560).