Nisan
Nisan (or
Nissan; from ) in the
Babylonian and
Hebrew calendars is the month of the barley ripening and first month of spring. The name of the month is an
Akkadian language borrowing, although it ultimately originates in
Sumerian ''nisag'' "first fruits". In the
Hebrew calendar it is the first month of the ecclesiastical year, called the "first of the months of the year" (
Exodus 12:1-2), "first month" (Ex 12:14), and the month of ''
Aviv'' (Ex 13:4) ''ḥōḏeš hāʾāḇîḇ''). It is called Nissān in the
Book of Esther. It is a month of 30 days. In the year 2024, 1 Nisan will occur on 9 April. Counting from 1
Tishrei, the civil new year, it would be the seventh month (eighth, in leap year), but in contemporary Jewish culture, both months are viewed as the first and seventh simultaneously, and are referred to as one or the other depending on the specific religious aspects being discussed.
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