Nîyçân — H5212

Definition

proper noun

Nisan, the first month of the Jewish sacred year

1. Nisan = "their flight"
2. the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to March or April

Usually translated as

Nisan

Origin

probably of foreign origin

Occurrences

Nîyçân occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Nehemiah (1), Esther (1)

• Nehemiah 2:1 — And it came to pass in the month Nisan (נִיסָ֗ן), 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 (נִיסָ֔ן), 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.