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Abib

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(green fruit, also ear of corn), called also Nisan. Seventh month of Jewish civil, and first of the sacred year (Ex. 12:2²This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. (Exodus 12:2)). [MONTH.]

Concise Bible Dictionary:

See MONTHS.

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

green ear (of corn)

From Manners and Customs of the Bible:

Deuteronomy 16:1¹Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. (Deuteronomy 16:1). The month of Abib.

Abib means a green ear. This denotes the condition of the barley in Palestine and Egypt during this month. It was the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and was in later times called Nisan. See Nehemiah 2:1¹And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. (Nehemiah 2:1); Esther 3:7⁷In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. (Esther 3:7). It corresponded nearly to our month of April.

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