[ah-veev] 
[ah-veev] | the seventh month of the Jewish year, equivalent to Nisan of the modern Jewish calendar. Ex. 34:18. |
| A·bib (ä-vēv') n. The seventh month of the year in the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to Nisan. [Hebrew 'ābîb, young barley, spring, Abib; see  bb in Semitic roots.] |
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).
