Scripture shows us that the new year begins in the spring. The Hebrew calendar, used in ancient Israel and modern Judaism, begins each new year in the spring, not on January 1st like the Gregorian calendar.

According to scripture, God commanded that Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar occurring in the spring, “shall be the first month of the year to you” (Exodus 12:2).

Eleventh Biblical month
Shevat – Zechariah 1:7 – in English, scripture calls it Sebat
Zechariah 1:7 TLV On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shevat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Adonai came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying:

Confirmed: Tuesday evening, January 19, 2026 the new moon was sighted which makes Wednesday January 20, 2026 the first day of Shevat the 11th biblical month.

Biblical Months
1. Ha Aviv / Nissan, Est. 3:7 – ha Aviv, Exodus 12:2 and Exodus 13:4 – in English, scripture calls it Abib (pronounced Aveev).
2. Ziv – 1 Kings 6:1 calls it Zif – Not called Iyyar as Judaism states
3. Sivan – Esther 8:9
4. No name – Tammuz is Not the name of the 4th month as Judaism states – That is a false God
5. No name – Av is Not in the bible – This is Not the name of the 5th month as Judaism states
6. – Elul is the name of the 6th month
Elul, seems like it is the name of the sixth month by the two verses below:
Neh.6 [15] So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Neh.7[73] So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
7. ha Ethanim – 1 Kings 8:2 – calls it Ethanim – Tishrei is the wrong name as Judaism states
8. Bul – 1 Kings 6:38 – In English, scripture calls it Bul – Not called Cheshvan or Mar Cheshvan as Judaism states
9. Chislev – Zach 7:1 – in English, scripture calls it Chisleu
10 Teveth – Esther 2:16 – in English, scripture calls it Tebeth
11. Shevat – Zechariah 1:7 – in English, scripture calls it Sebat
12. Adar – Esther 3:7