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<p> (אָב, prob. i. q. "the season of ''Fruit, אָבַב'' מֵרָ to ''Be Fruitful,'' and apparently of [[Syriac]] origin, D'Herbelot, ''Bibl. Orient.'' s.v. comp. ABIB; Josephus, Ἀββά, Ant. 4, 4, 7), the [[Chaldee]] name of the fifth ecclesiastical and eleventh civil month of the Jewish year (Buxtorf, ''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 ''Fifth'' month (&nbsp;Numbers 33:38; &nbsp;Jeremiah 1:3; &nbsp;Zechariah 7:3, etc.). It corresponded with the [[Macedonian]] month ''Lous (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 ''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, ''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, ''Synog. Judenth.'' 35), and also by Titus (Josephus, ''War,'' 6:4, 5); the 15th was the festival of the Xylophoria, or bringing of wood into the Temple (Bodenschatz, ''Kirchlich, Verfassung Der Juden,'' 2:106; comp. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:34; &nbsp;Nehemiah 13:31; on nine successive days, according to Otho, ''Lex. Rabb.'' p. 331; on the 14th, according to Josephus, ''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). — Kitto, s.v. (See Month). </p>