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Hebrew month before Iyar
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nisan
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nisan \Ni"san\, n. [Heb. n[=i]s[=a]n.] The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib .
Usage examples of nisan.
Those of Asia Minor who held strictly to the 14th of Nisan as the term of the Easter festival, were not influenced by Jewish Christian, but by Christian or Old Testament, considerations.
The intercalary month, Veadar, is introduced in embolismic years in order that Passover, the 15th day of Nisan, may be kept at its proper season, which is the full moon of the vernal equinox, or that which takes place after the sun has entered the sign Aries.
In this month of Nisan, it was cooled by the breezes which swept gently past the patio fountain.