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<p> The month Νisan . ("ears of grain", namely, barley (&nbsp;Exodus 13:4).) (See [[Months]] .) On the 15th day of Nisan, the Jews began harvest by gathering a sheaf of barley firstfruits, and on the 16th day of Nisan, offered it (&nbsp;Leviticus 23:4-14). On the 10th day of Nisan, the [[Passover]] lamb was taken, on the 14th day of Nisan, slain and eaten. </p>

<p> [[Abib]] (''Â'Bib'' ), ''Budding,'' &nbsp;Exodus 13:4. See Month. </p>

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

<p> '''''ā´bib''''' (, אביב <i> ''''''ābhı̄bh''''' </i> , young ear of barley or other grain, &nbsp;Exodus 9:31; &nbsp;Leviticus 2:14 ): The first month of the [[Israelite]] year, called Nisan in &nbsp;Nehemiah 2:1; &nbsp;Esther 3:7 , is Abib in &nbsp;Exodus 13:4; &nbsp;Exodus 23:15; &nbsp;Exodus 34:18; compare &nbsp;Deuteronomy 16:1 . 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 (&nbsp;Exodus 12:2 ), 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 [[Calendar]] . </p>