Nisan
נִיסָןStrong’s H5212nisan (ni-san)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nisan is the Hebrew word usually translated “nisan”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Nisan = "their flight"
How it's translated
- nisan 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
- Esther 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נִיסָן nisan · Nisan
Nisan = "their flight" the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April Another name of a.viv (אָבִיב "Abib" H0024)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nisan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NIS'AN, noun
A month of the Jewish calendar, the first month of the sacred year and seventh of the civil year, answering nearly to our March. It was originally called Abibi, but began to be called nisan after the captivity.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.