Word

פֶּסַח

peçach · H6453 · Hebrew · 49 occurrences

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Meanings

Passover

Festival commemorating the time in Egypt when God killed the first-born of Egypt but spared the Israelites

Examples
Exodus 12:11 ‘Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is the LORD’S Passover.
Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat it;
Exodus 12:48 “But if a stranger resides with you and celebrates the Passover to the LORD, all of his males are to be circumcised, and then he shall come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised male may eat it.
Passover sacrifice

Animal sacrificed for the Passover festival

Examples
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Exodus 12:27 then you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD because He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
Deuteronomy 16:2 “You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to establish His name.

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

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 2 groups

זֶהthis 3
עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is done to itIt is the object

28 occurrences in 5 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 18
שָׁחַטto slaughter 6
זָבַחto sacrifice, to slaughter 2
בָּשַׁלto boil, to cook 1
אָכַלto eat, to devour 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

זָבַחto sacrifice, to slaughter 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday, time 1
אַרְבַּעfour 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1
כֹּלall, every, whole 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 5
כlike/as 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 5 groups

חֻקָּהstatute, ordinance 3
מׇחֳרָתnext day 2
זֶבַחsacrifice 1
חַגfeast, festival 1
שְׁחִיטָהslaughtering 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.

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In the other Testament 1 word

πάσχα páscha · G3957 · the Passover: Greek πάσχα directly translates Hebrew פֶּסַח as the technical term for the Passover festival, meal, and associated sacrificial offerings, maintaining the same semantic range across both testament contexts.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Festivals002002002011: פֶּסַח denotes the Passover, the annual feast commemorating Israel's deliverance from Egypt, repeatedly commanded and celebrated as the LORD's Passover in Exodus 12:11, 12:27, 12:43, and 12:48.
Animals001001002: The word also denotes the Passover lamb itself, the sacrificial animal slaughtered for the feast, as when Moses commands the elders to take and slaughter lambs for the Passover in Exodus 12:21.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פָּסַח pâçach · H6452 · to be lamed, to hop around · 7×פֶּסַחpeçach · H6453פִּסֵּחַ piççêach · H6455 · to be lamed · 14×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6453. pesach מֶּ֫סַח noun masculine passover (usually (Thes and most) from I. פסח, with…

H6453. pesach
מֶּ֫סַח noun masculine passover (usually (Thes and most) from I. פסח, with reference to Exo 12:13 etc.; ReussGeschichte. AT § 58 passing over into new year; SchaeferPassah-Mazzoth (1900), 346 compare Assyrian pašâ—u, soothe, placate [deity], < be soothed, Pi`el transitive, JenZA iv (1889), 275 ZimBabylonian Rel. i (1896). Glossary; ii (1899), 92; SchwIdiot, 124 from II. פסח, of sacred dance); — absolute ׳פ Exo 12:11 +; מָּ֑סַח Exo 12:21 +; plural מְּסָחִים2Ch 30:17 2Ch 30:3t.; —
1 sacrifice of Passover, involving communion-meal, hence a species of peace-offering (compare I. זֶבַח II. 2), פ ׳זֶבַח לי ׳הוא Exo 12:27 (J), compare Exo 12:11 (P); פ ׳זָבַח Deu 16:2, Deu 16:5, Deu 16:6; הפ ׳אבל2Ch 30:18; the special feature lay in the application of blood to homes to consecrate them: compare simile Babylonian rite of purification Zimib. ii. 126-7.
2 the animal victim of the passover: פ ׳שׁחט Exo 12:21 (J) 2Ch 30:15; 2Ch 35:1; 2Ch 35:6; 2Ch 35:11; Ezr 6:20, compare 2Ch 30:17; הפ ׳בשׁל באשׁ2Ch 35:13; לפסחים2Ch 35:7-8, 2Ch 35:9. [Passover animals (compare BrHex.206) were צאֹן flock Exo 12:21 (J), שֶׁה Exo 12:3; Exo 12:4; Exo 12:5, including כֶּבֶשׁ and עֵז Exo 12:5 (P); ובקר צאן Deu 16:2; large numbers of all these (שֶׂה not used) in Josiah's Passover, active to 2Ch 35:7-8, 2Ch 35:9, but evident mingling of whole burnt-offerings for the passover with special passover victim.]
3 festival of the passover : הפ ׳חג Exo 34:25 (J); ׳(ה)פ Lev 23:5; Num 28:16; Num 33:3; Jos 5:11 (P) Eze 45:21; הפ ׳חֻקַּת Exo 12:43; Num 9:12, Num 9:14 (P); פ ׳עשׂה Exo 12:48; Num 9:2, Num 9:4, Num 9:5, Num 9:6, Num 9:10, Num 9:13, Num 9:14; Jos 5:10 (P) Deu 16:1; 2Ki 23:21-22, 2Ki 23:23; 2Ch 30:1-2, 2Ch 30:5; 2Ch 35:1, 2Ch 35:16, 2Ch 35:17, 2Ch 35:18 (twice in verse); 2Ch 35:19; Ezr 6:19; it was held in month הָאָבִיב Deu 16:1, בָּעָ֑רֶב Deu 16:6; on 14th day Jos 5:10 (P), of 1st month Eze 45:21; הערבים בֵּין (Exo 12:6) Lev 23:5; Num 9:5 (P); if impossible at that time, then on 14th of 2nd month Num 9:10, Num 9:12. [No reference to מֶּסַח in E; J subordinates it to מַצּוֺת (the great feast of J E); in D it predominates over מצות; P makes it first in importance (BrHex.195f.)].]

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Animals16 occurrences Festivals33 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