KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Exodus 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 (Nehemiah 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 (Leviticus 23:4-11).

green fruit; ears of corn

Called also Nisan.

First month in the Jewish calendar
Exodus 12:2

Passover instituted and Israelites depart from Egypt in
Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:1

Tabernacle set up in
Exodus 40:2; Exodus 40:17

Israelites arrive at the wilderness of Zin in
Numbers 20:1

Enter Canaan in
Joshua 4:19

Jordan's overflow in
1 Chronicles 12:15

(green fruits). [MONTH]

A'BIB, noun [Heb. swelling, protuberant. To produce the first or early fruit; a full grown ear of corn.]

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, called also Nisan. It begins at the spring equinox, and answers to the latter part of March and beginning of April. Its name is derived from the full growth of wheat in Egypt, which took place anciently, as it does now, at that season.