Passover
פֶּ֫סַחStrong’s H6453pesach (pe-sach)
Appears in 46 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pesach is the Hebrew word usually translated “passover”, “passovers” and “like the passover”. It appears in 46 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.”
Meaning
- Passover
How it's translated
- the passover 29
- a passover 13
- for the passovers 3
- like the passover 2
- passover 1
- the passovers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 17
- Numbers 10
- Exodus 6
- Deuteronomy 4
- 2 Kings 3
- Joshua 2
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
- 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.
- Exodus 12:43And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
- Exodus 12:48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
- Exodus 34:25Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
- Leviticus 23:5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
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Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫סַח pesach · Passover
Passover, 1a) sacrifice of passover 1b) animal victim of the passover 1c) festival of the passover Also named: pascha (πάσχα "Passover lamb" G3957)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “passover” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ASSOVER, noun
[pass and over.]
A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God smiting the first-born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb.
- The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover
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.