H5212: נִיסָן
Nîyçân · pronounced nee-sawn' · “Nisan”
Definition
Nisan, the first month of the Jewish sacred year
KJV translates it as: Nisan.
Word origin: probably of foreign origin;
Extended definition
Nisan = "their flight"
the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April
Another name of a.viv (אָבִיב "Abib" H0024)
the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April
Another name of a.viv (אָבִיב "Abib" H0024)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5212 is translated
- nisan ×2
Bible verses with H5212 (Nîyçân)
Nîyçân appears in 2 verses.
- Nehemiah 2:1
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
- Esther 3:7
In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.