Abib, also spelled Aviv, has three meanings in Hebrew: Hebrew (עִבְרִית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...
The stage in the growth of grain when the seeds have reached full size and are filling with starch, but have not dried yet. During the plague of hail (Exodus 9:31), the barley was abib and the flax was giv`ol.
The month in the Hebrew calendar when the barley has reached or passed this stage (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the seventh of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the first of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21st March. It was called Nisan, after the Babylonian captivity (Neh. 2:1). On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf of barley, which was offered to the Lord on the sixteenth (Lev. 23:4-11).
The season when barley ripens; spring. Thus the major modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv means "Springhill".
== References ==This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Oats, barley, and some products made from them Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible grains or seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ... Exodus is the second book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and also the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), and the Christian Old Testament. ... Binomial name Hordeum vulgare L. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is a major food and animal feed crop, a member of the grass family Poaceae. ... Binomial name Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus. ... The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: ) or Jewish calendar is the annual calendar used in Judaism. ... Binomial name Hordeum vulgare L. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is a major food and animal feed crop, a member of the grass family Poaceae. ... Nisan (× Ö´×™×¡Ö¸×Ÿ, Standard Hebrew Nisan, Tiberian Hebrew NîsÄn: from Akkadian nisÄnu, from Sumerian nisag First fruits) is the first month of the civil year and the seventh month (eighth, in leap year) of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. ... Babylonian captivity also refers to the permanence of the Avignon Papacy. ... At the bottom of the hands, the two letters on each hand combine to form יהוה (YHVH), the name of God. ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...
In fact, some of us were surprised to find the abib so early, as it has often been later, but seeing is believing and theories are fine but the practice of seeking the abib was most educational.
Now we understood why, in the Hebrew the word 'abib' is always preceded by the definite article, as in Ex.13:4 "This day came ye out in the month of the abib." It is the occurrence of the abib or the 'aviv', as the Israelis call it, that determines the first month of the year.
Having found the abib, or aviv, widely spread over the land of Israel, we gathered that evening on the last day of the 12th month after sunset, on the roof of a tall hotel in Jerusalem to look for the first sign of the new moon that would finalise the start of the new year.
Abib indicates a stage in the development of the barley crops.
The reason that the barley was destroyed and the wheat was not is that the barley had reached the stage in its development called Abib and as a result had become brittle enough to be damaged by the hail.
Parched barley was a commonly eaten food in ancient Israel and is mentioned in numerous passages in the Hebrew Bible as either "Abib parched (Kalui) in fire" (Lev 2,14) or in the abbreviated form "parched (Kalui/ Kali)" (Lev 23,14; Jos 5,11; 1Sam 17,17; 1Sam 25,18; 2Sam 17,28; Ruth 2,14).
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