Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5212 - נִיסָן Nisan (first month of the Jewish religious year)

Original Word:	נִיסָן
Transliteration:	Nisan
Definition:	first month of the Jewish religious year
Part of Speech:	Noun
Phonetic Spelling:	(nee-sawn')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Nisan

Probably of foreign origin; Nisan, the first month of the Jewish sacred year -- Nisan.

Englishman's Concordance

Nisan=“their flight”
1) the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April
Part of Speech: noun proper
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably of foreign origin
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1359

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נִיסָןproper nameof 1st month (loan-word from Babylonian Nisannu, compare Schr^{COT Nehemiah 1.. 1} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi. 1 (1892). 76}; Late Hebrew=Biblical Hebrew; so Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb³²³); — only post-exile: ׳חֹדֶשׁ נNehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7 ( + הָרִאשׁוֺן הַחֹדֶשׁ),=pre-exile הָאָבִּיב (הֹדֶשׁ). — On sacredness of Nisan compare also RS^{Semitic i. 387; 2d ed. 406 f}.

נִיצוֺץ see נצץ. נֵיר see נֵר.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5212. Nisan — 2 Occurrences

Nehemiah 2:1
HEB:וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בְּחֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֗ן שְׁנַ֥ת עֶשְׂרִ֛ים
NAS: about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth
KJV: And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth
INT: came the month Nisan year the twentieth

Esther 3:7
HEB:הוּא־ חֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֔ן בִּשְׁנַת֙ שְׁתֵּ֣ים
NAS: is the month Nisan, in the twelfth
KJV: that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth
INT: which is the month Nisan year both

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