\Zif\, n. [Heb. ziv.] The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.
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brightness; splendour; i.e., "the flower month," mentioned only in 1 Kings 6:1, 37, as the "second month." It was called Iyar by the later Jews. (See MONTH.)
Webster's 1913 Dictionary