Word

πάσχα

páscha · G3957 · Greek · 29 occurrences

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Sheep, lambMammals319 verses

Meanings

Passover festival, Passover

The Jewish festival commemorating the deliverance of Jews from Egypt

Examples
Matthew 26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion.”
Mark 14:1 Now the Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest Him covertly and kill Him;
Mark 14:12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Passover meal

A Passover meal eaten in connection with the Passover festival (see sense 1)

Examples
Matthew 26:18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am keeping the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’”
Matthew 26:19 The disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.
Mark 14:14 and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’
Passover lamb

A specially selected lamb (or a collective for all such lambs) killed and eaten during the festival commemorating the departure of Israel from Egypt

Examples
Matthew 26:17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Mark 14:12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Luke 22:7 Now the first day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 2
ἐγώI, we 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

οὗτοςthis 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἑορτήfestival 1
ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

θύωto slaughter, to sacrifice 1

What is done to itIt is the object

14 occurrences in 5 groups

φάγωto eat 6
ἑτοιμάζωto prepare, to make ready 4
θύωto slaughter, to sacrifice 2
ποιέωto do, to make 2
πορεύομαιto go, to travel 1

What it is said to bePredicate

5 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐγγύςnear 3
ἡμέραday 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐνin 3
μετάwith, after 2
πρόbefore 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 3 groups

ἑορτήfestival 2
ἡμέραday 1
παρασκευήday of preparation 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

פֶּסַח peçach · H6453 · passover: πάσχα (páscha, G3957) is the direct Greek rendering of פֶּסַח (peçach, H6453), denoting the same Passover observance across both Testaments with identical semantic scope encompassing the meal, festival day, and sacrificial elements.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Passover lamb4.27: This domain covers πάσχα naming the sacrificial animal slaughtered for the feast, as Mark records the disciples' preparation: “And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, ‘Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?’” (Mark 14:12)
Passover festival, Passover51.6: Here πάσχα names the annual feast itself, as Luke records Jesus's family's yearly custom: “Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.” (Luke 2:41)
Passover meal51.7: Here πάσχα names the particular meal eaten as part of the festival, as Luke records Jesus's words at the table: “‘I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.’” (Luke 22:15)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τό (Chaldean פִּסְחָא, Hebrew פֶּסַח, from פָּסַח, to pass over, to pass over by sparing;…

τό (Chaldean פִּסְחָא, Hebrew פֶּסַח, from פָּסַח, to pass over, to pass over by sparing; the Sept. also constantly use the Chaldean form πάσχα, except in 2 Chron. (and Jer 38:8) where it is φασεκ; Josephus has φασκα, Antiquities 5, 1, 4; 14, 2, 1; 17, 9, 13; b. j. 2, 1, 3), an indeclinable noun (Winers Grammar, § 10, 2); properly, a passing over;
1. the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt), or
2. the paschal lamb, i. e. the lamb which the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of that day on which their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were bidden by God to slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door-posts with its blood, that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their dwellings (Exodus 12; Numbers 9; Deuteronomy 16): θύειν τό πάσχα (הַפֶסַח שָׁחַט), Mk 14:12; Lk 22:7, (Ex 12:21); Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb, 1 Cor 5:7; φαγεῖν τό πάσχα, Mt 26:17; Mk 14:12, Mk 14:14; Lk 22:11, Lk 22:15; Jn 18:28; הָפֶסַח אָכַל, 2 Chr 30:17f.
3. the paschal supper: ἑτοιμάζειν τό πάσχα, Mt 26:19; Mk 14:16; Lk 22:8, Lk 22:13; ποιεῖν τό πάσχα to celebrate the paschal meal, Mt 26:18.
4. the paschal festival, the feast of Passover, extending from the fourteenth to the twentieth day of the month Nisan: Mt 26:2; Mk 14:1; Lk 2:41; Lk 22:1; Jn 2:13, Jn 2:23; Jn 6:4; Jn 11:55; Jn 12:1; Jn 13:1; Jn 18:39; Jn 19:14; Acts 12:4; πεποίηκε τό πάσχα he instituted the Passover (of Moses), Heb 11:28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 272 (256); Buttmann, 197 (170)); γίνεται τό πάσχα the Passover is celebrated (R. V. cometh), Mt 26:2. (See BB. DD. under the word ; Dillmann in Schenkel iv., p. 392ff; and on the question of the relation of the Last Supper to the Jewish Passover, see (in addition to references in BB. DD. as above) Kirchner, die Jüdische Passahfeier u. Jesu letztes Mahl. Gotha, 1870; Keil, Com. über Matth., pp. 513-528; J. B. McClellan, The N. T. etc. i., pp. 473-494; but especially Schürer, Ueber φαγεῖν τό πάσχα, akademische Festschrift (Giessen, 1883).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Animals6 occurrences Festivals23 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0