5212. Nisan
Strong's Concordance
Nisan: first month of the Jewish religious year
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: Nisan
Phonetic Spelling: (nee-sawn')
Short Definition: Nisan
Brown-Driver-Briggs
נִיסָן proper name of 1st month (loan-word from Babylonian Nisannu, compare SchrCOT Nehemiah 1.. 1 Muss-ArnJBL xi. 1 (1892). 76; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; so Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb323); — only post-exile: ׳חֹדֶשׁ נ Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7 ( + הָרִאשׁוֺן הַחֹדֶשׁ), = pre-exile הָאָבִּיב (הֹדֶשׁ). — On sacredness of Nisan compare also RSSemitic i. 387; 2d ed. 406 f.

נִיצוֺץ see נצץ. נֵיר see נֵר.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Nisan

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

Forms and Transliterations
נִיסָ֔ן נִיסָ֗ן ניסן nî·sān niSan nîsān
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2 Occurrences


nî·sān — 2 Occ.

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

2 Occurrences

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