Strong H6453פֶּ֫סַח

Passover

Transliteration
pesach
Pronunciation
peh'-sakh
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H6452; a {pretermission} that {is} exemption; used only technically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim): - passover (offering).

Detailed definition

Passover,
1a) sacrifice of passover
1b) animal victim of the passover
1c) festival of the passover

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

In the biblical story

Passover

An annual Jewish feast commemorating the Exodus

The Passover is an annual Jewish feast that commemorates the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as described in Exodus 12, and is celebrated with specific rituals and offerings as prescribed in the Old Testament and observed in the New Testament.

In the Bible

Strong H6453 appears in 46 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • passover43
  • offering3

First verses

  1. Exodus 12:11
    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.
  2. Exodus 12:21
    Then 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.
  3. Exodus 12:27
    That 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.
  4. Exodus 12:43
    And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
  5. Exodus 12:48
    And 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.
  6. Exodus 34:25
    Thou 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.
  7. Leviticus 23:5
    In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.
  8. Numbers 9:2
    Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
  9. Numbers 9:4
    And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
  10. Numbers 9:5
    And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
  11. Numbers 9:6
    And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
  12. Numbers 9:10
    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.
  13. Numbers 9:12
    They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
  14. Numbers 9:13
    But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
  15. Numbers 9:14
    And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
  16. Numbers 28:16
    And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.
  17. Numbers 33:3
    And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
  18. Deuteronomy 16:1
    Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
  19. Deuteronomy 16:2
    Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.
  20. Deuteronomy 16:5
    Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:
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