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# אָבִיב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H24

**green** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

green [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/24/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָבִיב: n.m. coll. fresh, young ears Abib [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/24/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 2:14 coll. (LagBN 207 Inf.) fresh, young ears of barley Ex 9:31; indef. Lv 2:14 מִנְחַת בִּכּוּרִים ליהוה א׳ קָלוּי בָּאֵשׁ. חֹדֶשׁ הָֽאָבִיב month of ear-forming, or of growing green, Abib, month of Exodus & passover, Ex 13:4; 23:15; 34:18, 18 (JE), Dt 16:1, 1 (1st month = c. April = הָרִאשֹׁן, הַחֹדֶשׁ הָר׳ (q.v.) in P; v. Di Ex 12:2; = postexilic נִיסָן q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abib (6); \[was\] young barley ear\[s\] (1); young barley ear\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 13:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.4/#tree)

הַיּ֖וֹם אַתֶּ֣ם יֹצְאִ֑ים בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁ הָאָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* this day you \[are\].about.to.go.out in the.month of.(the) Abib

*JPS 1917:* This day ye go forth in the month Abib.

[Exodus 9:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.31/#tree)

וְהַפִּשְׁתָּ֥ה וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖ה נֻכָּ֑תָה כִּ֤י הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙ אָבִ֔יב וְהַפִּשְׁתָּ֖ה גִּבְעֹֽל׃

*Word for word:* and the flax and the barley it.was.struck (dm) the barley \[was\].young.barley.ear\[s\] and the flax \[was\].bud

*JPS 1917:* And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/24.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/24/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).