text: Only four pre-exilic month names appéar in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible): "Aviv" (first; literally "Spring", but originally probably méant the ripening of barley), "Ziv" (second; literally "Light"), "Ethanim" (seventh; literally "Strong" in plural, perhaps referring to strong rains), and "Bul" (eighth), and all are Canaanite names