נִיסָן

nîsān
Hebrew · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-03
Meanings
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month name
time interval
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1. Nisan (month I)

1.a Nisan (month I) month name, time interval

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בְּחֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֗ן שְׁנַ֥ת עֶשְׂרִ֛ים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יַ֣יִן לְפָנָ֑יו וָאֶשָּׂ֤א אֶת־הַיַּ֙יִן֙ וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְלֹא־הָיִ֥יתִי רַ֖ע לְפָנָֽיו׃

wayhî  bəḥōd̲eš nîsān šənat̲ ʿeśrîm ləʾartaḥšastəʾ hammelek̲ yayin ləp̲ānāyw wāʾeśśāʾ ʾet̲-hayyayin wāʾettənāh lammelek̲ wəlōʾ-hāyît̲î raʿ ləp̲ānāyw.

‘In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, wine was set before him; I took the wine and gave it to the king—I had never been out of sorts in his presence.’

— Nehemiah 2 1

Genre: religious text

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). נִיסָן (Lemma #2551). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2551/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). נִיסָן (Lemma #2551). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2551/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). נִיסָן (Lemma #2551). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2551/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) נִיסָן (Lemma #2551), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2551/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2551,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {נִיסָן ({Lemma} #2551)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2551/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2551/},
}