Nisan

Nisan - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

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

Nisan - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

NIS'AN, n. A month of the Jewish calendar, the first month of the sacred year and seventh of the civil year, answering nearly to our March. It was originally called Abibi, but began to be called Nisan after the captivity.