Ziv is the second month, and the name means brightness. The sun is getting its strength back. The Targum calls it the splendor of flowers.
Solomon laid the foundation of the Lord’s house in that month. Ages later they started the second house in the same one. The word shows up thirteen times, and thirteen is echad — one. The second letter is bet, a house. Even the corner of a building comes from the same root. Christ is that stone. We are the ones fitted onto Him, a place for God to live, members of His body.
Iyar traces back to light. Out of darkness a light shines, and the brightness is the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus. Flowers, a foundation, one house.
The 2nd month of the year in the Biblical calendar is known as זו ‘ziv’ which means brightness or splendor, in reference to the strengthening sun of Spring and the ‘splendor of flowers‘ as the Targum calls it. The 2nd month is also referred to as איר ‘Iyar’ which has a similar meaning.
The building of the Temple.
1Ki 6:1 And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year from the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Zif, it is the second month, in the reigning of Solomon over Israel he built the house for Jehovah.
1Ki 6:37 The house of Jehovah was founded in the fourth year, in the month of Zif.
On the first day of Iyar, King Solomon began the construction of the First Temple
On the same month, hundreds of years later, construction of the Second Temple began (Ezra 3:8).
זו ‘ziv’ is used 13 times in Scripture (H2097 1 time and H2098 12 times), linking back to the tribes of Israel, who are His temple/house.
Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; {recall that the word זוית which comes from זו means the corner of a building}
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Isa 43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
Exo 15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
Exo 15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Exo 15:17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
Exo 15:18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
His body
Isa 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
13 is also the numerical value of the Hebrew word אחד ‘echad’ which means ‘one.’ The 2nd month of the year further links to His body in unity as the 2nd letter of the Aleph – Bet is ב ‘bet’ which means house.
The House of God is the Church
Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Ti 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
IYYAR
Iyar in Hebrew is אִייָר or אִיָּר, said to trace back to the Akkadian ayyaru, meaning ‘Rosette’; ‘blossom.’
איר ‘iyar’ ultimately traces back to the Hebrew word אר which means ‘light.’ אור ‘ohr’ which means light has the numerical equivalent of 207 which corresponds with the Greek phrase εν δοζη ‘en doxa’ which means ‘in glory.’
2Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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