ǁ Abib

[Heb. ābīb, lit. a spike of corn.] The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical, the seventh of the civil year, afterwards called Nisan.

1382.  Wyclif, Exod. xiii. 4. To day ȝe goon out, in the moneth of new fruytis.

1535.  Coverdale, ibid. This daye are ye gone out, euen in y^e moneth of Abib.

1833.  Penny Cycl., I. 29. In the calendar of the modern Jews, Abib is no longer the beginning of the year, its place being usurped by Tisri, which was anciently the seventh month.