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was called Nisan, after the Captivity (Nehemiah 2:1). On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf of barley, which was offered unto the Lord on the sixteenth (Leviticus 23:4-11).
•ABIDA or Abi’dah, father of knowledge; knowing, one of the five sons of Midian, who was the son of Abraham by Keturah (1 Chronicles 1:33), and apparently the chief of an Arab tribe.
•ABIDAN father of judgment; judge, head of the tribe of Benjamin at the Exodus (Numbers 1:11; 2:22).