old age; perishing
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BUL.1Ki_6:38, the Canaanite name for the month which the Babylonians termed Marcheshvan. See time.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Bul. (rain). See Month.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews, and the second month of the civil year. It answers to October. and consists of twenty-nine days. On the sixth day of this month the Jews fasted, because on that day Nebuchadnezzar put to death the children of Zedekiah in the presence of their unhappy father, whose eyes, after they had been witnesses of this sad spectacle, he ordered to be put out, 2Ki_25:7. We find the name of this month mentioned in Scripture but once, 1Ki_6:38.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
bul (בּוּל, būl): Name of the 8th month of the Jewish year (1Ki_6:38). It is of Phoenician origin and signifies the month of rain, the beginning of the rainy season. See CALENDAR.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bul
(Heb. id. בּוּל, for יְבוּל, rain, from the season of the year; Sept. Βαάλ), the eighth ecclesiastical month of the Jewish year (1Ki_6:38), answering in general to October, SEE CALENDAR (Jewish), and corresponding, according to the rabbins (Rosh Hash ana, c. 2; Tanchum Hieros. in loc.), to MARCHESVAN SEE MARCHESVAN (q.v.). According to Benfey (Ueb. die Monatsnamen einger alien Volker, p. 18), it may have derived its name from the worship of Baal (comp. the Sept. rendering), as other months appear to have been in like manner consecrated to special deities. SEE MONTH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.