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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 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - “These are your instructions for eating this meal: Be fully dressed,[fn] wear your sandals, and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the LORD’s Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses called all the elders of Israel together and said to them, “Go, pick out a lamb or young goat for each of your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the instructions for the festival of Passover. No outsiders are allowed to eat the Passover meal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - “You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And none of the meat of the Passover sacrifice may be kept over until the next morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - “The LORD’s Passover begins at sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - “Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - But some of the men had been ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, so they could not celebrate the Passover that day. They came to Moses and Aaron that day

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If any of the people now or in future generations are ceremonially unclean at Passover time because of touching a dead body, or if they are on a journey and cannot be present at the ceremony, they may still 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 the lamb until the next morning, and they must not break any of its bones. They must follow all the normal regulations concerning the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - “But those who neglect to celebrate the Passover at the regular time, even though they are ceremonially clean and not away on a trip, will be cut off from the community of Israel. If they fail to present the LORD’s offering at the proper time, they will suffer the consequences of their guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if foreigners living among you want to celebrate the Passover to the LORD, they must follow these same decrees and regulations. The same laws apply both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - “On the fourteenth day of the first month,[fn] you must celebrate the LORD’s Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - They set out from the city of Rameses in early spring—on the fifteenth day of the first month[fn]—on the morning after the first Passover celebration. The people of Israel left defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 - “In honor of the LORD your God, celebrate the Passover each year in the early spring, in the month of Abib,[fn] for that was the month in which the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to the LORD your God at the designated place of worship—the place he chooses for his name to be honored.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - “You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - You must offer it only at the designated place of worship—the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored. Sacrifice it there in the evening as the sun goes down on the anniversary of your exodus from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - While the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 - King Josiah then issued this order to all the people: “You must celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as required in this Book of the Covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - There had not been a Passover celebration like that since the time when the judges ruled in Israel, nor throughout all the years of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - This Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - On April 21[fn] the returned exiles celebrated 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 ceremonially clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - The Passover meal was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile and by the others in the land who had turned from their immoral customs to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - “On the fourteenth day of the first month,[fn] you must celebrate the Passover. This festival will last for seven days. The bread you eat during that time must be made without yeast.
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