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H5212

נִיסָן

ni.sanN:N--T

Nisan

Nisan = "their flight" the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April Another name of a.viv (אָבִיב "Abib" H0024)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

נִיסָן proper name of 1st month (loan-word from Babylonian Nisannu, compare SchrCOT Neh 1. 1 Muss-ArnJBL 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 RSSemitic i. 387; 2d ed. 406 f.

נִיצוֺץ see נצץ. נֵיר see נֵר.

2 occurrences

Nehemiah (1), Esther (1)