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Lexicon :: Strong's H6453 - pesaḥ

Aa
פֶּסַח
Transliteration
pesaḥ
Pronunciation
peh'-sakh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 BoxExo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 - Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 - And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1 - Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2 - For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5 - So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11 - And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:17 - And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20 - For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.
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