HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5212
נִיסָן
ni.san — Nisan
Nisan = "their flight" the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April Another name of a.viv (אָבִיב "Abib" H0024)
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Nisan
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G8397
Νισάν
Nisan — Nisan
Nisan
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אָבִיב
a.viv — Abib
Month of exodus and passover (March or April) Also named: ni.san (נִיסָן "Nisan" H5212) This name means fresh, young barley ears, barley
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Month of flowers, (Neh. 2:1) the first month of the Jewish sacred year. (See ABIB.) Assyrian nisannu, “beginning.”
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.