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Lexicon :: Strong's G3957 - pascha

Aa
πάσχα
Transliteration
pascha (Key)
Pronunciation
pas'-khah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Aramaic origin cf פֶּסַח (H6453)
mGNT
29x in 1 unique form(s) TR
29x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
29x in 2 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:896,797

Strong’s Definitions

πάσχα páscha, pas'-khah; of Chaldee origin (compare H6453); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it):—Easter, Passover.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's G3957 in the following manner: Passover (28x), Easter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's G3957 in the following manner: Passover (28x), Easter (1x).

  1. the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt)

  2. the paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of the 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; Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb

  3. the paschal supper

  4. the paschal feast, the feast of the Passover, extending from the 14th to the 20th day of the month Nisan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πάσχα páscha, pas'-khah; of Chaldee origin (compare H6453); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it):—Easter, Passover.
STRONGS G3957:
πάσχα, 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 Jeremiah 38:8 (Jeremiah 31:8)) 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), Mark 14:12; Luke 22:7, (Exodus 12:21); Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb, 1 Corinthians 5:7; φαγεῖν τό πάσχα, Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12, 14; Luke 22:11, 15; John 18:28; הָפֶסַח אָכַל, 2 Chronicles 30:17f.
3. the paschal supper: ἑτοιμάζειν τό πάσχα, Matthew 26:19; Mark 14:16; Luke 22:8, 13; ποιεῖν τό πάσχα to celebrate the paschal meal, Matthew 26:18.
4. the paschal festival, the feast of Passover, extending from the fourteenth to the twentieth day of the month Nisan: Matthew 26:2; Mark 14:1; Luke 2:41; Luke 22:1; John 2:13, 23; John 6:4; John 11:55; John 12:1; John 13:1; John 18:39; John 19:14; Acts 12:4; πεποίηκε τό πάσχα he instituted the Passover (of Moses), Hebrews 11:28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 272 (256); Buttmann, 197 (170)); γίνεται τό πάσχα the Passover is celebrated (R. V. cometh), Matthew 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).)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
12; 12:21
Numbers
9
Deuteronomy
16
2 Chronicles
30:17
Jeremiah
31:8; 38:8
Matthew
26:2; 26:2; 26:17; 26:18; 26:19
Mark
14:1; 14:12; 14:12; 14:14; 14:16
Luke
2:41; 22:1; 22:7; 22:8; 22:11; 22:13; 22:15
John
2:13; 2:23; 6:4; 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28; 18:39; 19:14
Acts
12:4
1 Corinthians
5:7
Hebrews
11:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3957 matches the Greek πάσχα (pascha),
which occurs 29 times in 27 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:2 - After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:17 - Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:18 - And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:19 - And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:1 - It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:12 - And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:14 - And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:16 - And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:41 - And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:1 - Now the feast of unleavened bread was near, which is called the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:7 - And the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb is put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:8 - And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:11 - And say to the master of the house, The Master says, Where is the guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:13 - And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:13 - The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:23 - Now while he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, a great number of people came to have faith in his name, after seeing the signs which he did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:4 - Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:28 - So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:39 - But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:14 - (It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4 - And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:7 - Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:28 - By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.
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