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SHEVAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shevat mean? 

SHEVAT (noun)
  The noun SHEVAT has 1 sense:

1. the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February)play

  Familiarity information: SHEVAT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHEVAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Shebat; Shevat

Hypernyms ("Shevat" is a kind of...):

Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)

Holonyms ("Shevat" is a part of...):

Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar ((Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years)


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