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<p> in the [[Hebrew]] chronology, the eleventh month of the civil year, and the fifth of the ecclesiastical year, which began with Nisan. This month answered to the moon of July, comprehending part of July and August, and contained thirty days. </p> <p> The first day of this month is observed as a fast by the Jews, in memory of Aaron's death; and the ninth, in commemoration of the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar, in the year before Christ 587. [[Josephus]] observes, that the burning of the temple by [[Nebuchadnezzar]] happened on the same day of the year on which it was afterward burned by Titus. The same day was remarkable for Adrian's edict, which prohibited the [[Jews]] to continue in Judea, or to look toward [[Jerusalem]] and lament its desolation. The eighteenth day is also kept as a fast, because the sacred lamp was extinguished on that night, in the reign of Ahaz. On the twenty-first, or, according to Scaliger, the twenty-second day, was a feast called Xylophoria, from their laying up the necessary wood in the temple: and on the twenty-fourth, a feast in commemoration of the abolishing of a law by the Asmoneans, or Maccabees, which had been introduced by the Sadducees, and which enacted, that both sons and daughters should alike inherit the estate of their parents. </p>

<p> &nbsp;Ab. &nbsp;(father). </p> <p> 1. An element in the composition of many proper names, of which [[Abba]] is a Chaldeaic form, having the sense of "endowed with," "possessed of." </p> <p> 2. &nbsp;See [[Month]]&nbsp;. </p>

<p> (&nbsp;אָב, prob. i. q. "the season of &nbsp;fruit, &nbsp;אָבַב &nbsp;מֵרָ to &nbsp;be fruitful, and apparently of [[Syriac]] origin, D'Herbelot, &nbsp;Bibl. Orient. s.v. comp. ABIB; Josephus, &nbsp;Ἀββά, Ant. 4, 4, 7), the [[Chaldee]] name of the fifth ecclesiastical and eleventh civil month of the Jewish year (Buxtorf, &nbsp;Lex. Talm. &nbsp;Colossians 2:1-23); a name introduced after the [[Babylonian]] captivity, and not occurring in Scripture, in which this is designated simply as the &nbsp;fifth month (&nbsp;Numbers 33:38; &nbsp;Jeremiah 1:3; &nbsp;Zechariah 7:3, etc.). It corresponded with the [[Macedonian]] month &nbsp;Lous (&nbsp;Λῶος), beginning with the new moon of August, and always containing thirty days. The 1st day is memorable for the death of [[Aaron]] (&nbsp;Numbers 33:38); the 9th is the date (Moses Cozenzis, in Wagenseil's &nbsp;Sota, p 736) of the exclusion from [[Canaan]] (&nbsp;Numbers 14:30), and the destruction of the [[Temple]] by Nebuchadnezzar (&nbsp;Zechariah 7:5; &nbsp;Zechariah 8:19; comp. Reland, &nbsp;Antiq. Sacr. 4:10; but the 7th day, according to &nbsp;2 Kings 25:8, where the Syriac and Arabic read 9th; also the 10th, according to &nbsp;Jeremiah 52:12, probably referring to the close of the conflagration, Buxtorf, &nbsp;Synog. Judenth. 35), and also by Titus (Josephus, &nbsp;War, 6:4, 5); the 15th was the festival of the Xylophoria, or bringing of wood into the Temple (Bodenschatz, &nbsp;Kirchlich, verfassung der Juden, 2:106; comp. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:34; &nbsp;Nehemiah 13:31; on nine successive days, according to Otho, &nbsp;Lex. Rabb. p. 331; on the 14th, according to Josephus, &nbsp;War, 2:17); the 18th is a fast in memory of the extinction of the western lamp of the Temple during the impious reign of [[Ahaz]] (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 29:7). &nbsp;— Kitto, s.v. (See [[Month]]). </p>