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Lexicon :: Strong's G3957 - pascha

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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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:2 - Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:17 - Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:18 - And he said, Go into the city unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near, I will keep the passover in thy house with my disciples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:19 - And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:1 - Now the passover and the feast of unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:12 - And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:14 - And wheresoever he enters, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:16 - And his disciples went away and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:41 - And his parents went yearly to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:1 - Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the passover, drew nigh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:7 - And the day of unleavened bread came, in which the passover was to be killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:8 - And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the passover for us, that we may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:11 - and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:13 - And having gone they found it as he had said to them; and they prepared the passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:13 - And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:23 - And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:4 - but the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead man Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:28 - They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium; and it was early morn. And *they* entered not into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:39 - But ye have a custom that I release some one to you at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:14 - (now it was the preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your king!

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4 - whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the passover to bring him out to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:7 - Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:28 - By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
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