pesach · Passover

What it means

pesach (פֶּסַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Passover”.

(pesach): the festival that recalls the night when God "passed over" the houses of Israel and brought them out of Egypt; also the animal sacrificed that night.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×2
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×19
• Ezra×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Exodus 12:11

  This is how you shall eat it: your waists belted, your sandals on your feet, and your walking stick in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of YHWH.

• Exodus 12:21

  Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves animals of the flock for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

• Exodus 12:27

  you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover to YHWH, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when he struck Egypt and delivered our houses.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and bowed down.

• Exodus 12:43

  YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.

• Exodus 12:48

  If a resident alien resides with you and would keep the Passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised; then he may come near to keep it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man shall eat of it.

• Exodus 34:25

  You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover shall not remain overnight until the morning.

• Leviticus 23:5

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is the Passover of YHWH.

• Numbers 9:2

  “Let the sons of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

• Numbers 9:4

  So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

• Numbers 9:5

  And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

• Numbers 9:6

  But there were men who were unclean through a dead human being, and they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

• Numbers 9:10

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean through a corpse, or on a distant journey, he shall still keep the Passover to YHWH.

• Numbers 9:12

  They shall not leave any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

• Numbers 9:13

  But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present the offering of YHWH at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

• Numbers 9:14

  And if a resident alien resides among you and keeps the Passover to YHWH, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so he shall keep it; you shall have one statute, both for the resident alien and for the native of the land.’”

• Numbers 28:16

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Passover to YHWH.

• Numbers 33:3

  They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a raised hand before the eyes of all Egypt,

• Deuteronomy 16:1

  Keep the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to YHWH your Elohim, for in the month of Abib YHWH your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night.

• Deuteronomy 16:2

  And you shall sacrifice the Passover to YHWH your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place that YHWH chooses to make his name dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 16:5

  You may not sacrifice the Passover in any one of your gates that YHWH your Elohim is giving you,

• Deuteronomy 16:6

  but at the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your coming out of Egypt.

• Joshua 5:10

  The sons of Israel camped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

• Joshua 5:11

  They ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and roasted grain, on this very day.

• 2 Kings 23:21

  The king commanded all the people, saying, “Celebrate the Passover to YHWH your Elohim, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

• 2 Kings 23:22

  For there had not been celebrated one like this Passover since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah;

• 2 Kings 23:23

  but in year eighteen of King Josiah this Passover was celebrated to YHWH in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:1

  Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of YHWH in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 30:2

  The king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem took counsel to celebrate the Passover in the second month;

• 2 Chronicles 30:5

  They established a word: to send a proclamation through all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to celebrate the Passover to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, in Jerusalem; for they had not celebrated it in great numbers as it is written.

• 2 Chronicles 30:15

  They slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings to the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 30:17

  For many in the assembly were those who had not sanctified themselves; so the Levites were in charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 30:18

  For the majority of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover not as it is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May YHWH, the good one, make expiation for

• 2 Chronicles 35:1

  Josiah celebrated in Jerusalem a Passover to YHWH, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• 2 Chronicles 35:6

  Slaughter the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of YHWH through Moses.”

• 2 Chronicles 35:7

  Josiah contributed to the sons of the people flock animals, lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle; these were from the possessions of the king.

• 2 Chronicles 35:8

  And his officials contributed as a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of the house of Elohim, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred flock animals and three hundred cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:9

  Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the officials of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand flock animals and five hundred cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:11

  They slaughtered the Passover, and the priests splashed the blood they received from their hand, and the Levites were skinning.

• 2 Chronicles 35:13

  They cooked the Passover over the fire according to the rule, and the holy things they cooked in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and brought them quickly to all the sons of the people.

• 2 Chronicles 35:16

  So all the service of YHWH was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of YHWH, according to the commandment of King Josiah.

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