King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5212
Transliteration: Nisan
Phonetic Spelling: (nee-sawn')
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: first month of the Jewish religious year
Meaning: first month of the Jewish religious year
Word Summary
Nisan: first month of the Jewish religious year
Original Word: נִיסָןTransliteration: Nisan
Phonetic Spelling: (nee-sawn')
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: first month of the Jewish religious year
Meaning: first month of the Jewish religious year
Strong's Concordance
Nisan Probably of foreign origin; Nisan, the first month of the Jewish sacred year -- Nisan.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5212. Nisan
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: נ ׳חֹדֶשׁ Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7 ( + הַחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֺן), = pre-exile הָאָבִּיב (הֹדֶשׁ). — On sacredness of Nisan compare also RSSemitic i. 387; 2d ed. 406 f.
נִיצוֺץ see נצץ. נֵיר see נֵר.