Lexical Definition

‎נִיסָן‎ Nîyçân (nee-sawn') Nisan ^N:N--T
probably of foreign origin

Nisan.

• § Nisan = "their flight"
• Nisan, the first month of the Jewish sacred year

1) the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April

Extended Information

name of: אָבִיב

• Nisan = "their flight"
• Another name of a.viv (‎א‎ָ‎ב‎ִ‎יב‎ "Abib" אָבִיב)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎נִיסָן‎ proper name of 1st month (loan-word from Babylonian Nisannu, compare Schr^{COT Neh 1. 1} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi. 1 (1892). 76}; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; so Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb³²³); — only post-exile: ‎׳‎‎חֹדֶשׁ נ‎ Neh 2:1; Esth 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.

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