12 Bible Months

 

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 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.

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