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<span> [[Exodus]] 13:4 </span> <span> Exodus 23:15 </span> <span> Exodus 34:18 </span> <span> [[Deuteronomy]] 16:1 </span> <span> [[Esther]] 3:7 </span> <a> [[Calendars]] </a>

<p> <span> Abib. </span> <span> (green fruits). </span> <span> [[See]] </span> <a> [[Month]] </a> <span> . </span> </p>

<p> <translit> ā´bib </translit> (, <span> אביב </span> <i> <translit> 'ābhı̄bh </translit> </i> , young ear of barley or other grain, <span> [[Exodus]] 9:31 </span> ; <span> [[Leviticus]] 2:14 </span> ): The first month of the [[Israelite]] year, called [[Nisan]] in <span> [[Nehemiah]] 2:1 </span> ; <span> [[Esther]] 3:7 </span> , is [[Abib]] in <span> Exodus 13:4 </span> ; <span> Exodus 23:15 </span> ; <span> Exodus 34:18 </span> ; compare <span> [[Deuteronomy]] 16:1 </span> . Abib is not properly a name of a month, but part of a descriptive phrase, "the month of young ears of grain." This may indicate the Israelite way of determining the new year ( <span> Exodus 12:2 </span> ), the year beginning with the new moon nearest or next preceding this stage of the growth of the barley. The year thus indicated was practically the same with the old [[Babylonian]] year, and presumably came in with Abraham. The [[Pentateuchal]] laws do not introduce it, though they define it, perhaps to distinguish it from the [[Egyptian]] wandering year. [[See]] <links> CALENDAR </links> . </p>

<p> (Heb. Abib', <span> אָבַיב </span> <span> , </span> from an obsolete root <span> = <span> אָבִב </span> to fructify), </span> properly, a head or ear of grain ( <span> [[Leviticus]] 2:14 </span> , "green ears;" <span> [[Exodus]] 9:31 </span> , "ear"); hence, the month of newly-ripe grain ( <span> Exodus 13:4 </span> ; <span> Exodus 23:15 </span> ; <span> Exodus 34:18 </span> ; <span> [[Deuteronomy]] 16:1 </span> ), the first of the [[Jewish]] ecclesiastical year, afterward ( <span> [[Nehemiah]] 2:1 </span> ) called NISAN (See <a> NISAN </a> ) (q.v.). It began with the new moon of March, according to the Rabbins (Buxtorf, Lex. <span> Talm. </span> <span> Colossians 3:1-25 </span> ), or rather of April, according to Michaelis <span> (Comment. de Alensibus Hebraeor., </span> comp. his <span> Commentat. </span> Bremas, 1769, p. 16 sq.); at which time the first grain ripens in [[Palestine]] (Robinson's <span> Researches, </span> 2:99, 100). (See <a> MONTH </a> ). [[Hence]] it is hardly to be regarded as a strict name of a month, but rather as a designation of the season; as the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Saadias have well rendered, in <span> Exodus 13:4 </span> , the month of the new grain;" less correctly the Syriac, "the month of flowers" (comp. Bochart, <span> Hieroz. </span> 1:557). Others (as A. Muller, <span> Gloss. Sacra, </span> p. 2) regard the name as derived from the eleventh [[Egyptian]] month, <span> Epep </span> ( <span> ἐπιφί </span> , Plut. <span> de Iside, </span> p. 372); but this corresponds neither to [[March]] or April, but to [[July]] (Fabricii <span> Menologium, </span> p. 22-27; Jablonsky, <span> Opusc. </span> ed. Water, 1:65 sq.). (See <a> TEL-ABIB </a> ). </p>