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Lexicon :: Strong's H6453 - pesaḥ

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פֶּסַח
Transliteration
pesaḥ
Pronunciation
peh'-sakh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 1786a

Strong’s Definitions

פֶּסַח peçach, peh'-sakh; from H6452; a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim):—passover (offering).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x

The KJV translates Strong's H6453 in the following manner: passover (46x), passover offerings (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x
The KJV translates Strong's H6453 in the following manner: passover (46x), passover offerings (3x).

  1. passover

    1. sacrifice of passover

    2. animal victim of the passover

    3. festival of the passover

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פֶּסַח peçach, peh'-sakh; from H6452; a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim):—passover (offering).
STRONGS H6453: Abbreviations
† פֶּ֫סַח noun masculine passover (usually (Thes and most) from I. פסח, with reference to Exodus 12:13 etc.; ReussGeschichte. AT § 58 passing over into new year; SchaeferPassah-Mazzoth (1900), 346 compare Assyrian pašâḫu, soothe, placate [deity], < be soothed, Pi. transitive, JenZA iv (1889), 275 ZimBabylonian Rel. i (1896). Glossary; ii (1899), 92; SchwIdiot, 124 from II. פסח, of sacred dance); — absolute פ׳ Exodus 12:11 +; פָּ֑סַח Exodus 12:21 +; plural פְּסָחִים 2 Chronicles 30:17 + 3 times; —
1. sacrifice of Passover, involving communion-meal, hence a species of peace-offering (compare I. זֶבַח II. 2), הוא לי׳ זֶבַח פ׳ Exodus 12:27 (J), compare Exodus 12:11 (P); זָבַח פ׳ Deuteronomy 16:2, 5, 6; אבל הפ׳ 2 Chronicles 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: שׁחט פ׳ Exodus 12:21 (J) 2 Chron 30:15; 35:1; 35:6; 35:11; Ezra 6:20, compare 2 Chronicles 30:17; באשׁ בשׁל הפ׳ 2 Chronicles 35:13; לפסחים 2 Chronicles 35:7, 8, 9. [Passover animals (compare BrHex.206) were צאֹן flock Exodus 12:21 (J), שֶׁה Exodus 12:3; Exodus 12:4; Exodus 12:5, including כֶּבֶשׁ and עֵז Exodus 12:5 (P); צאן ובקר Deuteronomy 16:2; large numbers of all these (שֶׂה not used) in Josiah's Passover, active to 2 Chronicles 35:7, 8, 9, but evident mingling of whole burnt-offerings for the passover with special passover victim.]
3. festival of the passover : חג הפ׳ Exodus 34:25 (J); (ה)פ׳ Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 28:16; Numbers 33:3; Joshua 5:11 (P) Ezekiel 45:21; חֻקַּת הפ׳ Exodus 12:43; Numbers 9:12, 14 (P); עשׂה פ׳ Exodus 12:48; Numbers 9:2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14; Joshua 5:10 (P) Deuteronomy 16:1; 2 Kings 23:21, 22, 23; 2 Chronicles 30:1, 2, 5; 35:1, 16, 17, 18 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 35:19; Ezra 6:19; it was held in month הָאָבִיב Deuteronomy 16:1, בָּעָ֑רֶב Deuteronomy 16:6; on 14th day Joshua 5:10 (P), of 1st month Ezekiel 45:21; בֵּין הערבים (Exodus 12:6) Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:5 (P); if impossible at that time, then on 14th of 2nd month Numbers 9:10, 12. [No reference to פֶּסַח 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.).]
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:3; 12:4; 12:5; 12:5; 12:6; 12:11; 12:11; 12:13; 12:21; 12:21; 12:21; 12:27; 12:43; 12:48; 34:25

Leviticus

23:5; 23:5

Numbers

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

Deuteronomy

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

Joshua

5:10; 5:10; 5:11

2 Kings

23:21; 23:22; 23:23

2 Chronicles

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

Ezra

6:19; 6:20

Ezekiel

45:21; 45:21

H6453

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Strong's Number H6453 matches the Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ),
which occurs 49 times in 46 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - “Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate the LORD’s Passover,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the LORD’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - “ ‘A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the LORD’s Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - “ ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the LORD’s Passover is to be held.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 - Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[fn] of your departure from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 - The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1 - Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, inviting them to come to the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2 - The king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5 - They decided to send a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, calling the people to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel. It had not been celebrated in large numbers according to what was written.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs[fn] to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves and prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites, doing what the LORD commanded through Moses.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings, and also three thousand cattle—all from the king’s own possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officials also contributed voluntarily to the people and the priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials in charge of God’s temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred Passover offerings and three hundred cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Also Konaniah along with Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel and Jozabad, the leaders of the Levites, provided five thousand Passover offerings and five hundred head of cattle for the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11 - The Passover lambs were slaughtered, and the priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them, while the Levites skinned the animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - They roasted the Passover animals over the fire as prescribed, and boiled the holy offerings in pots, caldrons and pans and served them quickly to all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So at that time the entire service of the LORD was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had ordered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:17 - The Israelites who were present celebrated the Passover at that time and observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - The Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests, the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were there with the people of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20 - The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their relatives the priests and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - “ ‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast.
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