ABIB ā’ bĭb (אָבִֽיב, ripened head of grain). The month of March/April during which the Passover took place. This is the older, presumably Canaanite name, for the month of Nisan (Exod 13:4; 23:15; 34:18; Deut 16:1). Three other Canaanite names, Zib, Etanim, and Bul, are attested along with others in Phoen. inscrs. but so far Abib has not been attested. The proto-Sinaitic ’bb Albright now reads as an Egyp. personal name (W. F. Albright, Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions [1966], 38).