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Zif
Brightness; splendour; i.e., “the flower month,” mentioned only in 1 Kgs 6:1, 1 Kgs 6:37, as the “second month.” It was called Iyar by the later Jews. (See Month.)
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- 1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
