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abib |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abib \A"bib\, n. [Heb. ab[=i]b, lit. an ear of corn. The month was so called from barley being at that time in ear.] The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called {Nisan}. --Kitto. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Abib an ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21st March. It was called Nisan, after the Captivity (Neh. 2:1). On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf of barley, which was offered unto the Lord on the sixteenth (Lev. 23:4-11). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Abib, green fruit; ears of corn
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