Editing Sivan (section)

{{Short description|3rd month of the Hebrew calendar}}
{{other uses}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox month
| image       = Shavuot bikkurim.jpg
| alt         = 
| caption     = [[Shavuot]], the Festival of Weeks, marks the day the [[Torah]] was given to the [[Israelites]] at [[Mount Sinai]]. [[First Fruits#Hebrew perspective|Bikkurim]] are given as offerings, as in this picture from [[Nahalal]], Israel in 2006.
| native_name = {{Native name|he| {{Script/Hebrew|סִיוָן}}}}
| calendar    = [[Hebrew calendar]]
| num         = 3
| days        = 30
| season      = Spring (Northern Hemisphere)
| gregorian   = May–June
| holidays    = [[Shavuot]]
| prev_month  = [[Iyar]]
| next_month  = [[Tammuz (Hebrew month)|Tammuz]]
}}

'''''Sivan''''' ({{hebrew name|סִיוָן|Sivan|Siwān}}, from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] ''simānu'', meaning "season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the religious year on the [[Hebrew calendar]]. It is a month of 30 days. ''Sivan'' usually falls in May–June on the [[Gregorian calendar]].

Along with all other current, post-biblical Jewish month names, Sivan was adopted during the [[Babylonian captivity]]. In the [[Babylonian calendar]] it was named Araḫ Simanu.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Muss-Arnolt |first1=W. |date=1892 |title=The Names of the Assyro-Babylonian Months and Their Regents |journal=Journal of Biblical Literature |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=72–94 |doi=10.2307/3259081 |jstor=3259081 |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027/mdp.39015030576584}} (free access at [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030576584&seq=9]).</ref>