Editing Nisan (section)

==Name and origin==
The biblical Hebrew months were given enumerations instead of names. The new moon of [[Aviv]], which in Hebrew means "barley ripening" and by extension "spring season"(Exodus 9:31) is one of the few called both by name and by its number, the first. Nisan and other Akkadian-origin names for the equivalent lunar months in the [[Babylonian calendar]] came to be applied to the Hebrew calendar during the [[Babylonian captivity]], in which the month of Aviv's name was ''Araḫ Nissānu'', the "month of beginning".<ref>Muss-Arnolt, W., [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3259081 The Names of the Assyro-Babylonian Months and Their Regents], Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 11, No. 1 (1892), pp. 72–94 [76], accessed 10 August 2020 (subscription only - free access at [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030576584&seq=9])</ref>