אָבִיב
ʼâbîyb · H24 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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an ear of grain
The uppermost part of a grain plant, which contains the seeds
ExamplesLeviticus 2:14 ‘Also if you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened produce.
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plant in the ear
Grain plant that has reached the final stage of its growth, which means that the ear containing the seeds has formed; this also implies that the plant is more vulnerable to weather conditions, such as hail
ExamplesExodus 9:31 (Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
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Abib
A month, equivalent to the period March and April, in which the ears formed in the new grain; pre-exilic
ExamplesExodus 13:4 “On this day in the month of Abib, you are about to go out from here.
Exodus 23:15 “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. And no one is to appear before Me empty-handed.
Exodus 34:18 “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָלָהto burn 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֶּרֶשׂcrushed grain 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרַבto come near, to offer 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׂעֹרָהbarley 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֹדֶשׁmonth 6
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Plants001002007001
- אָבִיב denotes the young, still-forming ear of a grain plant, as barley described as being in the ear.
- Stage002001001060
- The word marks grain's early, green stage of ripening, before it reaches full maturity.
- Names of Times003001013
- Abib also names the first month of the Hebrew calendar, the month of the Exodus and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H24. abib אָבִיב noun masculineLev 2:14 collective (LagBN 207 Infinitive) 1 fresh, young…
אָבִיב noun masculineLev 2:14
collective (LagBN 207 Infinitive)
1 fresh, young ears of barley Exo 9:31; indefinite Lev 2:14 א ליהוה בִּכּוּרִים ׳מִנְחַת בָּאֵשׁ קָלוּי.
2 הָֽאָבִיב חֹדֶשׁ month of ear-forming, or of growing green, Abib, month of Exodus & passover, Exo 13:4; Exo 23:15; Exo 34:18 (twice in verse) (JE), Deu 16:1 (twice in verse) (1st month = circa April = הָר ׳הַחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשֹׁן, (q. v.) in P; see Di Exo 12:2; = post-exilic נִיסָן q. v.)
אֲבִגַיִל see אֲבִיגַיִל below II. אבה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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