# aviv (אָבִיב)

pronounced: a-VIV


**Spring or ripening grain — the biblical name associated with the first month**

## In Scripture

> Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
> — Deuteronomy 16:1 (Passover fixes the first month in the season of Aviv)

> The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
> — Exodus 9:31 (Exact lexical sense — aviv describes barley at the fresh-ear stage before it becomes a month name.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/aviv/