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nisan
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.
Abib \A"bib\, n. [Heb. ab[=i]b, lit. an ear of corn. The month
was so called from barley being at that time in ear.]
The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year,
corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish
captivity this month was called Nisan.
--Kitto.
Wikipedia
Nisan (or Nissan; , Standard Nisan Tiberian Nîsān) on the Assyrian calendar is the first month, and on the Hebrew calendar is the first month of the ecclesiastical year and the seventh month (eighth, in leap year) of the civil year. The name of the month is of Assyrian- Babylonian origin; in the Torah it is called the month of the Aviv. Assyrians today refer to the month as the "month of happiness." It is a spring month of 30 days. (Nisan usually falls in March–April) on the Gregorian calendar. In the Book of Esther in the Tanakh it is referred to as Nisan. Karaite Jews interpret it as referring to the month in which barley was ripe.
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.