Lexicon Nisan: first month of the Jewish religious year Part of Speech: Noun Transliteration: Nisan Phonetic Spelling: (nee-sawn') Short Definition: Nisan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionfirst month of the Jewish religious year NASB TranslationNisan (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נִיסָן proper name of 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 Lzb 323); — only post-exile: ׳חֹדֶשׁ נ Nehemiah 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.
Strong's Nisan Probably of foreign origin; Nisan, the first month of the Jewish sacred year -- Nisan. |
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