H6453 פֶּסַח (peçach) peh'-sakh

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

Passover

Biblical Persons & Places

Passover Name of a feastival

Name of a feastival; called Passover or Passover lamb or Passover offering (פֶּ֫סַח); or Passover lamb or Passover (πάσχα)

Strong's Definition

a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)

Derivation: from H6452 (פָּסַח);

KJV Usage: passover (offering).

TWOT Reference: 1786a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) passover

1a) sacrifice of passover

1b) animal victim of the passover

1c) festival of the passover

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3957

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫סַח (pe.sach) — Passover. Passover, 1a) sacrifice of passover 1b) animal victim of the passover 1c) festival of the passover

Also named: pascha (πάσχα "Passover lamb" G3957)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

פֶּסַח (H6453)

noun m · פסח

Festivals

Passover = festival commemorating the time in Egypt when God killed the first-born of Egypt but spared the Israelites

EXO 12:11 · EXO 12:43 · EXO 12:48 · EXO 34:25 · LEV 23:5 · NUM 9:2 · NUM 9:4 · NUM 9:5 · NUM 9:6 · NUM 9:10 · NUM 9:12 · NUM 9:13 · NUM 9:14 · NUM 9:14 · NUM 28:16 · NUM 33:3 · DEU 16:1 · JOS 5:10 · JOS 5:11 · 2KI 23:21 · 2KI 23:22 · 2KI 23:23 · 2CH 30:1 · 2CH 30:2 · 2CH 30:5 · 2CH 35:1 · 2CH 35:16 · 2CH 35:17 · 2CH 35:18 · 2CH 35:18 · 2CH 35:19 · EZR 6:19 · EZK 45:21

Animals

Passover sacrifice = animal sacrificed for the Passover festival

EXO 12:21 · EXO 12:27 · DEU 16:2 · DEU 16:5 · DEU 16:6 · 2CH 30:15 · 2CH 30:17 · 2CH 30:18 · 2CH 35:1 · 2CH 35:6 · 2CH 35:7 · 2CH 35:8 · 2CH 35:9 · 2CH 35:11 · 2CH 35:13 · EZR 6:20

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫סַח n.m. passover sacrifice of passover, involving communion meal, hence a species of peace-offering

the animal victim of the passover

festival of the passover

base

Bible Occurrences (46)

12:11 12:21 12:27 12:43 12:48 34:25

23:5

9:2 9:4 9:5 9:6 9:10 9:12 9:13 9:14 28:16 33:3

16:1 16:2 16:5 16:6

5:10 5:11

23:21 23:22 23:23

30:1 30:2 30:5 30:15 30:17 30:18 35:1 35:6 35:7 35:8 35:9 35:11 35:13 35:16 35:17 35:18 35:19

6:19 6:20

45:21

Exodus 12:11

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel..., with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Exodus 12:21

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:27

you are to reply, It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes. Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 12:43

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the Passover: No... foreigner... is to eat of it.

Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males [in the household] must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land.... But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Exodus 34:25

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

Leviticus 23:5

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth... day of the first month.

Numbers 9:2

The Israelites... are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.