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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Abib /ɑˈviv/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A·bib n.  The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
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From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Abib
    an ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 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
    (Neh. 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 (Lev. 23:4-11).

From: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

 Abib, green fruit; ears of corn