נִיסָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5212

Nisan — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Nisan tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִיסָן: n.pr. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr. of 1st month (loan-wd. from Bab. Nisannu, cf. Schr COT Ne 1:1 Muss-ArnoltJBL xi. 1 (1892), 76; NH = BH; so Nab. Palm. v. Lzb323);—only post-exile: חֹדֶשׁ נ׳ Ne 2:1 Est 3:7 (+ הַחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן), = pre-exile הָאָבִיב (חֹדֶשׁ).—On sacredness of Nisan cf. also RSSem. i. 387; 2d ed. 406 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Nisan (2).

In the verses

Nehemiah 2:1 · tree →

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

Word for word: and it.was in the.month of.Nisan year twenty of Artaxerxes the king wine [was] before him and I.took (et) the wine and I gave.[it] to the king and not I.had.been sad before him

JPS 1917: And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

Esther 3:7 · tree →

בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ הוּא־חֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֔ן בִּשְׁנַת֙ שְׁתֵּ֣ים עֶשְׂרֵ֔ה לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ הִפִּ֣יל פּוּר֩ ה֨וּא הַגּוֹרָ֜ל לִפְנֵ֣י הָמָ֗ן מִיּ֧וֹם ׀ לְי֛וֹם וּמֵחֹ֛דֶשׁ לְחֹ֥דֶשׁ שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֖ר הוּא־חֹ֥דֶשׁ אֲדָֽר׃ס

Word for word: in the month (the) first that [is].the.month of.Nisan in year two.plus ten of the king Ahasuerus someone.cast Pur that [is].the lot before Haman from day to day and from month to month two.[plus] ten that [is].the.month of.Adar

JPS 1917: In the first month, which is the month Nisan, 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, which is the month Adar.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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