Abib

[ah-veev]

noun Chiefly Biblical.

Aviv.

Aviv

or A·bib

[ah-veev]

noun Chiefly Biblical.

the seventh month of the Jewish year, equivalent to Nisan of the modern Jewish calendar. Ex. 34:18.

Origin of Aviv

From the Hebrew word ābhībh literally, ear of grain

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Examples from the Web for abib

Historical Examples of abib

The first of these is Abib, meaning the month of "green ears."
The Astronomy of the Bible
E. Walter Maunder
The festival of the New Moon might prevent him from fasting on Abib 1, 2.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel
F. W. Farrar
Nisan, nī′san, n. the name given after the Captivity to the Jewish month Abib.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Various
It must be killed on the fourteenth of the month Abib as the sun is setting, and the blood must be sprinkled with hyssop.
Bible Animals;
J. G. Wood
The ecclesiastical year began with the month Abib, or Nisan, in the spring: the civil year with the month Ethanim in the fall.
Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

British Dictionary definitions for abib

Abib

noun

Judaism an older name for the month of Nisan

Word Origin for Abib

Hebrew ābhībh ear of grain, hence the month when grain was fresh

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