Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The first month of the year in the Jewish calendar; Nisan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The time of newly ripe grain; the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, beginning with the new moon of March.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called
Nisan .
Etymologies
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[59] Nisan was sometimes called Abib, as descriptive of the state of vegetation in that month, -- the earing of the corn and the blooming of the fruit-trees.
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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Malian authorities blamed his murder on AQIM cell leader Abou Zeid, also known as Abib
Dose.ca Music briefs 2010
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This second calendar probably held sway for quite a long time, for we know that the first month, known as Abib (spring) - cf. 13: 4; 23: 18; 34: 18-was called, in the post-exilic period (from the 6th century BC onwards) by the Babylonian name of
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The first of these is Abib, meaning the month of "green ears."
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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The Passover lamb, killed every year on the 14th of the first month called "Abib," was a type of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.
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I think if your name starts or ends with Abdullah, Abib, Ahmed, Ahmajad, any of those names, you should not be allowed to fly into America.
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I think if your name starts or ends with Abdullah, Abib, Ahmed, Amajad, any of those names, you should not be allowed to fly into America.
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In Chinese New Year, the cake Chinese has is also unleavened bread or the Nien-Gao similar to the unleavened bread Jews has in their Abib or Nisan festive season.
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Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
Archive 2008-07-01 LuLu 2008
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Um ... all right, something about unleavened bread during the month of Abib.
Archive 2008-07-01 LuLu 2008
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