When is abib

Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.

Exodus is a great passage because here we discover the first month of the Jewish year is the month in which the Exodus occurred. We also discover that the Passover must occur on the fourteenth day of this first month. In Deuteronomy 16 we discover the name of the month. NASB Deut. The answer to your question is that Passover occurs in the month Abib, or Nisan, which is in the March-April time frame.

To celebrate the new beginning of a year in Abib or Nisan has tremendous symbolic meaning. Jesus died on Nisan 14, the first month of a new year — a new beginning. This was the same month in which God saved those who believed Him and obeyed Him. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Judaism an older name for the month of Nisan. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms.

Words nearby Abib abhor , abhorrence , abhorrent , Abia , Abiathar , Abib , abidance , abide , abide by , abiding , Abidjan. How to use Abib in a sentence The Prophet had been transported from the place mentioned in chapter i:1 to Tel- abib , which was also on the river Chebar. The Prophet Ezekiel Arno C.