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Lexicon :: Strong's H6453 - pesaḥ

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פֶּסַח
Transliteration
pesaḥ
Pronunciation
peh'-sakh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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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.).]
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 thus shall ye eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - And Moses called all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to them, Go away and take to yourselves a lamb according to your kindreds, and slay the passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - that ye shall say to them, This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

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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 stranger shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - And if any proselyte shall come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise every male of him, and then shall he approach to sacrifice it, and he shall be even as the original inhabitant of the land; no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - Thou shalt not [fn]offer the blood of my [fn]sacrifices [fn]with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the passover [fn]remain 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, between the evening times is the Lord's passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its season.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - And Moses ordered the children of Israel to sacrifice the passover,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - on the fourteenth day of the first month in the wilderness of Sina, as the Lord appointed Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the passover to the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - And whatsoever man shall be clean, and is not far off on a journey, and shall fail to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he has not offered the gift to the Lord in its season: that man shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the passover to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the passover and according to its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the native of 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 passover to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - They departed from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 - Observe the month of new corn, and thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God; because in the month of new corn thou camest out of Egypt by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - Thou shalt not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, to have his name called there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when thou camest out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - And the children of Israel kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - And they ate of the grain of the earth unleavened and new corn.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 - And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - For a passover such as this had not been kept from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of king Josias, was the passover kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1 - And Ezekias sent to all Israel and Juda, and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasse, that they should come into the house of the Lord to Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the Lord God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2 - For the king, and the princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, designed to keep the passover in the second month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5 - And they established a decree that a proclamation should go through all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they should come and keep the passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for the multitude had not done it lately according to the scripture.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites repented, and purified themselves, and brought whole-burnt-offerings into the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - For a great part of the congregation was not sanctified; and the Levites were ready to kill the passover for every one who could not sanctify himself to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - For the greatest part of the people of Ephraim, and Manasse, and Issachar, and Zabulon, had not purified themselves, but ate the passover contrary to the scripture. On this account also Ezekias prayed concerning them, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - And Josias kept a passover to the Lord his God; and sacrificed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - And kill ye the passover, and prepare it for your brethren, to do according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - And Josias gave as an offering to the children of the people, sheep, and lambs, and kids of the young of the goats, all for the passover, even for all that were found, in number amounting to thirty thousand, and three thousand calves, these were of the substance of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - And his princes gave an offering to the people, and to the priests, and to the Levites: and Chelcias and Zacharias and Jeiel the chief men gave to the priests of the house of God, they even gave for the passover sheep, and lambs, and kids, two thousand six hundred, and three hundred calves.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - And Chonenias, and Banæas, and Samæas, and Nathanael his brother, and Asabias, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, heads of the Levites, gave an offering to the Levites for the passover, of five thousand sheep and five hundred calves.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11 - And they slew the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the victims.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - And thus they did till the morning. And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and caldrons, and the feast went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the service of the Lord was duly ordered and prepared in that day, for keeping the passover, and offering the whole-burnt-sacrifices on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of king Josias.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - And there was no passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, or any king of Israel: they kept not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda and Israel that were present, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, kept to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias this passover was kept, after all these things that Josias did in the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - And the children of the captivity 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 Levites were purified, all were clean to a man, and they slew the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the feast of the passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.
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