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Nisan

Month of flowers, (Neh. 2:1) the first month of the Jewish sacred year. (See [442]ABIB.) Assyrian nisannu, "beginning."

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Nehemiah 2:1

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.