NEW MOON, and by extension MONTH — the same word does both jobs, because the Hebrew calendar is lunar and a new month begins the moment the new moon is sighted. Numbers 28:11 calls it, literally, 'the head [rosh] of your months' — the ordinary modern term rosh chodesh is built directly from this verse's own vocabulary. ⭐ The root is chadash, 'new', which is also the beginning of lev chadash, 'a new heart' (Ezekiel 36:26, not yet on these pages) — the same word for a sky-object renewing itself monthly and for a heart renewed once. → first discussed at Num 28:11