AB
1. Father, found in many compound Hebrew proper names: as Abner, father of light; Absalom, father of peace.
2. The fifth month of the sacred, and the eleventh of the civil year among the Jews. It began, according to the latest authorities, with the new moon of August. It was a sad month in the Jewish calendar. On its first day, a fast was observed for the death of Aaron, Num 33:38; and on its ninth, another was held in memory of the divine edicts which excluded so many that came out of Egypt from entering the promised land; and also, of the overthrow of the first and second temple. See MONTH.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A.B.
Bachelor of Arts.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Ab.
= abbot
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Ab
(, prob. i. q. the season of fruit, to be fruitful, and apparently of Syriac origin, D’Herbelot, Bibl. Orient. s.v. comp. ABIB; Josephus, , 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 (), 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.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ab-
(, father), occurs as the first member of several compound Hebrew proper names, e.g. SEE ABNER, SEE ABSALOM, etc. not as a patronymic SEE BEN, or in its literal acceptation, but in a figurative sense, to designate some quality or circumstance of the person named; e.g. possessor of or endowed with; after the analogy of all the Shemitic languages (Gesenius, Thes. Heb. p. 7; in Arabic generally Abu-, see D’Herbelot, Biblioth. Orient. s.v.). SEE FATHER; SEE PROPER NAME. Hence it is equally applicable to females; e.g. SEE ABIGAIL (as among the Arabs; comp. Kosegarten, in Ewalds Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 1:297-317). In all cases it is the following part of the name that is to be considered as the genitive, the prefix being in the construct, and not the reverse. SEE ABI-.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ab
AB.See Time.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Ab (1)
( or ,( s ‘abh or ‘abh, the Hebrew and Aramaic word for father): It is a very common word in the Old Testament; this article notes only certain uses of it. It is used both in the singular and in the plural to denote a grandfather or more remote ancestors (e.g. Jer 35:16, Jer 35:15). The father of a people or tribe is its founder, not, as is frequently assumed, its progenitor. In this sense Abraham is father to the Israelites (see, for example, Gen 17:11-14, Gen 17:27), Isaac and Jacob and the heads of families being fathers in the same modified sense. The cases of Ishmael, Moab, etc., are similar. The traditional originator of a craft is the father of those who practice the craft (e.g. Gen 4:20, Gen 4:21, Gen 4:22). Sennacherib uses the term my fathers of his predecessors on the throne of Assyria, though these were not his ancestors (2Ki 19:12). The term is used to express worth and affection irrespective of blood relation (e.g. 2Ki 13:14). A ruler or leader is spoken of as a father. God is father. A frequent use of the word is that in the composition of proper names, e.g. Abinadab, my father is noble. See ABI.
The Aramaic word in its definite form is used three times in the New Testament (Mar 4:6), the phrase being in each case Abba Father, addressed to God. In this phrase the word Father is added, apparently, not as a mere translation, nor to indicate that Abba is thought of as a proper name of Deity, but as a term of pleading and of endearment. See also ABBA.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ab (2)
(, ‘abh): The name of the fifth month in the Hebrew calendar, the month beginning in our July. The name does not appear in the Bible, but Josephus gives it to the month in which Aaron died (Ant., IV, iv, 6; compare Num 33:38).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ab
Ab, 1
Ab, (father) is found as the first member of several compound Hebrew proper namessuch as Abner, father of light; Abiezer, father of help; etc.By a process which it is not difficult to conceive, the idea of a natural father became modified into that of author, cause, source (as when it is said, ‘has the rain a father?’Job 38:28). So that, in course of time, the original meaning was so far modified that the word was sometimes applied to a woman, as in Abigail, father of joy.
Ab, 2
Ab is the Chaldee name of that month which is the fifth of the ecclesiastical and eleventh of the civil year of the Jews. It commenced with the new moon of our August, and always had 30 days. This month is preeminent in the Jewish calendar as the period of the most signal national calamities. The 1st is memorable for the death of Aaron (Num 33:38). The 9th is the date assigned to the following events:the declaration that no one then adult, except Joshua and Caleb, should enter into the Promised Land (Num 14:30); the destruction of the first Temple by Nebuchadnezzar (to these first two ‘the fast of the fifth month,’ in Zec 7:5; Zec 8:19, is supposed to refer); the destruction of the second Temple by Titus; the devastation of the city Bettar, and the slaughter of Ben Cozbah (Bar Cocb), and of several thousand Jews there; and the plowing up of the foundations of the Temple by Turnus Rufusthe two last of which happened in the time of Hadrian.
The 9th of the month is observed by the Jews as a fast, in commemoration of the destruction of the first Temple: the 15th is the day appointed for the festival of the wood-offering, in which the wood for the burnt-offering was stored up in the court of the Temple: to which Nehemiah alludes in Neh 10:34, and Neh 13:31. Lastly, the 18th is a fast in the memory of the western lamp going out in the Temple in the time of Ahaz (2Ch 29:7, where the extinction of the lamps is mentioned as a part of Ahaz’s attempts to suppress the Temple service). For an inquiry into what is meant by the western or evening lamp, see the article Candlestick.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Ab
See MONTHS.
This word, signifying ‘father, source, origin,’ is much used in compound proper names: as Ab-salom, ‘father of peace;’ it is also used in female proper names as Ab-igail, ‘source of joy’; though some retain the word ‘father’ in females’ names as ‘the father’s joy.’ Frst gives also to Ab the meanings of ‘freshness strength, fruit’; but in proper names he often takes Ab to signify God; as Abijah, ‘God is jah.’ See NAMES.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Ab
Ab. (father).
1. An element in the composition of many proper names, of which Abba is a Chaldeaic form, having the sense of “endowed with,” “possessed of.”
2. See Month.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Ab
in the Hebrew chronology, the eleventh month of the civil year, and the fifth of the ecclesiastical year, which began with Nisan. This month answered to the moon of July, comprehending part of July and August, and contained thirty days.
The first day of this month is observed as a fast by the Jews, in memory of Aaron’s death; and the ninth, in commemoration of the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar, in the year before Christ 587. Josephus observes, that the burning of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar happened on the same day of the year on which it was afterward burned by Titus. The same day was remarkable for Adrian’s edict, which prohibited the Jews to continue in Judea, or to look toward Jerusalem and lament its desolation. The eighteenth day is also kept as a fast, because the sacred lamp was extinguished on that night, in the reign of Ahaz. On the twenty-first, or, according to Scaliger, the twenty-second day, was a feast called Xylophoria, from their laying up the necessary wood in the temple: and on the twenty-fourth, a feast in commemoration of the abolishing of a law by the Asmoneans, or Maccabees, which had been introduced by the Sadducees, and which enacted, that both sons and daughters should alike inherit the estate of their parents.