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( àָá , prob. i. q. “the season of fruit, àָáַá îֵøָ to be fruitful, and apparently of Syriac origin, D'Herbelot, Bibl. Orient. s.v. comp. ABIB; Josephus, Á᾿ââÜ , Ant. 4, 4, 7), the Chaldee name of the fifth ecclesiastical and eleventh civil month of the Jewish year (Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. Col_2:1-23); a name introduced after the Babylonian captivity, and not occurring in Scripture, in which this is designated simply as the fifth month (Num_33:38; Jer_1:3; Zec_7:3, etc.). It corresponded with the Macedonian month Lous ( Ëῶïò ), beginning with the new moon of August, and always containing thirty days. The 1st day is memorable for the death of Aaron (Num_33:38); the 9th is the date (Moses Cozenzis, in Wagenseil's Sota, p 736) of the exclusion from Canaan (Num_14:30), and the destruction of the Temple by Nebuchadnezzar (Zec_7:5; Zec_8:19; comp. Reland, Antiq. Sacr. 4:10; but the 7th day, according to 2Ki_25:8, where the Syriac and Arabic read 9th; also the 10th, according to Jer_52:12, probably referring to the close of the conflagration, Buxtorf, Synog. Judenth. 35), and also by Titus (Josephus, War, 6:4, 5); the 15th was the festival of the Xylophoria, or bringing of wood into the Temple (Bodenschatz, Kirchlich, verfassung der Juden, 2:106; comp. Neh_10:34; Neh_13:31; on nine successive days, according to Otho, Lex. Rabb. p. 331; on the 14th, according to Josephus, War, 2:17); the 18th is a fast in memory of the extinction of the western lamp of the Temple during the impious reign of Ahaz (2Ch_29:7). — Kitto, s.v. SEE MONTH.