Position in the Year | Hebrew Name | Babylonian Name | Modern Calendar | Biblical Feasts |
First Month
(Exodus 12:2) (Lev. 23:4-11) |
Aviv | Nisan | March/April | Passover
Crucifixion and Resurrection Unleavened Bread Firstfruits |
Second Month
(1 Kings 6:1) |
Ziv | Iyyar | April/May | |
Third Month | Sivan | May/June | Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) | |
Fourth Month | Tammuz | June/July | ||
Fifth Month | Av | July/August | ||
Sixth Month | Elul | August/September | ||
Seventh Month | Eitanim | Tishri | September/October | Feasts of Trumpets
Day of Atonement Feast of Tabernacles
|
Eighth Month | Bul | Cheshvan
Marheshwan |
October/November | |
Ninth Month | Chislev
Kislev |
November/December | ||
Tenth Month | Tevet | December/January | ||
Eleventh Month | Shevat | January/February | ||
Twelfth Month | Adar | February/March |
References Links: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/987524/jewish/Why-Babylonian-Names-for-Jewish-Months.htm#footnote3a987524
1st Kings 6 1 It was in the 480th year after the people of Isra’el had left the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Shlomo’s reign over Isra’el, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Adonai. [1]
[1] Stern, D. H. (1998). Complete Jewish Bible: an English version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament) (1st ed., 1 Ki 6). Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications.