Lexical Definition

‎בּוּל‎ Bûwl (bool) Bul ^N:N-M-T
the same as ‎בּוּל‎ (in the sense of rain)

Bul.

• § Bul = "increase: produce"
• Bul, the eighth Hebrew month

1) the eighth Hebrew month, corresponding to modern Oct-Nov (Nov-Dec)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎בּוּל‎ noun [masculine] Bul, 8th month = Marcheswan, Assyrian Ara— samna, 1Kgs 6:38 ‎בְּיֶרַח בּוּל הוּא‎ ‎הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי‎; (Canaanitish; Phoenician ‎ירח בל‎; a Palmyrene god is ‎בול‎ (in proper name ‎עבדבול‎, Vog⁹³ ‎זבדבול‎ etc.) & ‎ירחבול‎ (Vog^{93, moon-god}), which DHM^{Ber. Wien. Akkadian cviii. 977 connects} with Hebrew ‎בּוּל‎; Bae^{Rel 87 f.} (q. v.) thinks = ‎בעל‎, compare Thes^{p. 560}).

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