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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 BoxMat 26:2 - 'Ye have known that after two days the passover cometh, 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 - And on the first day of the unleavened food came the disciples near to Jesus, saying to him, 'Where wilt thou that we may 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 away to the city, unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is nigh; near thee I keep the passover, with my disciples;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:19 - and the disciples did as Jesus appointed them, and prepared the passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:1 - And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:12 - And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, 'Where wilt thou, that, having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:14 - and wherever he may go in, say ye to the master of the house -- The Teacher saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where the passover, with my disciples, I may eat?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:16 - And his disciples went forth, and came to the city, and found as he 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 were going yearly to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:1 - And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:7 - And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:8 - and he sent Peter and John, saying, 'Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'

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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 saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:13 - and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - and he said unto them, 'With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:23 - And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:4 - and the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - And the passover of the Jews was nigh, 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 Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world -- to the end he loved them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:28 - They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:39 - and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, that I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:14 - and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, 'Lo, your king!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4 - whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:7 - cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:28 - by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.
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