To pass
פָּסַחStrong’s H6452pasach (pa-sach)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pasach is the Hebrew word usually translated “pass over”, “passed over” and “became lame”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- To pass over, spring over(Qal) to pass over · (Piel) to skip, pass over
- To limp(Qal) to limp · (Niphal) to be lame · (Piel) to limp
How it's translated
- and i will pass over 1
- and he will pass over 1
- he passed over 1
- and he became lame 1
- limping 1
- and they limped around 1
- he will pass over 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
- Exodus 12:27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
- 2 Samuel 4:4And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
- 1 Kings 18:21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
- 1 Kings 18:26And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
- Isaiah 31:5As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּסַח pasach · to pass
1) to pass over, spring over 1a) (Qal) to pass over 1b) (Piel) to skip, pass over
פָּסַח pasach · to limp
1) to limp 1a) (Qal) to limp 1b) (Niphal) to be lame 1c) (Piel) to limp
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pass” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ASS, verb intransitive
[Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; Latin patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.
- To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another.
- To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.
- To vanish; to disappear; to be lost.
- To be spent; to go on or away progressively.
All definitions and other forms of “pass”
- To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]
- To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.
- To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
- To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received.
- To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.
- To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.
- To be done.
- To determine; to give judgment or sentence.
- To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.
- To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected.
- To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass not be converted into ailment.
- To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.
- To be in a tolerable state.
- To be transferred from one owner to another.
- To go beyond bounds.
- To run or extend; as a line or other thing.
- To be spent; to be lost.
P'ASS, verb transitive
To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.
- To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
- To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
- To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.
- To cause to move hastily.
- To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.
- To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.
- To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.
- To procure or cause to go.
- To put an end to.
- To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.
- To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
- To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
- To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill.
- To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
- To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.
- To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
- To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To thrust; to make a push in fencing.
- To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.
- To neglect; to disregard.
- To omit; to overlook or disregard.
P'ASS, noun
A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.
- A passage; a road.
- Permission to pass to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.
- An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.
- In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as, to make a pass at an antagonist.
- State; condition or extreme case; extremity.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.