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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.).]
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6453 matches the Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ),
which occurs 49 times in 46 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - ‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Passover H6453 of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 -

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “[fn]Bring out and take for yourselves [fn]lambs according to your families and slaughter the Passover H6453 lamb.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover H6453 sacrifice to Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 -

And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover H6453: no [fn]foreigner shall eat of it;

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “But if a sojourner sojourns with you and [fn]celebrates the Passover H6453 to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to [fn]celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 -

“You shall not [fn]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover H6453 shall not [fn]be left over until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month [fn]at twilight is the Passover H6453 of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - “Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover H6453 at its appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - So Moses [fn]told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover H6453.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they celebrated the Passover H6453 in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - But there were some men who were unclean because of a [fn]dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover H6453 on that day; so they came near before Moses and Aaron on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead [fn]person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover H6453 to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - ‘They shall leave none of it until morning nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover H6453 they shall celebrate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - ‘But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet [fn]neglects to celebrate the Passover H6453, that [fn]person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not bring near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - ‘If a sojourner sojourns among you and [fn]celebrates the Passover H6453 to Yahweh, according to the statute of the Passover H6453 and according to its judgment, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native of the land.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 -

‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Passover H6453 of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 -

They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the [fn]next day after the Passover H6453 the sons of Israel started out [fn]with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 -

“Keep the month of Abib and [fn]celebrate the Passover H6453 to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - “And you shall sacrifice the Passover H6453 to Yahweh your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses for His name to dwell.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - “You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover H6453 in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - but at the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover H6453 in the evening at sunset, at the appointed time that you came out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 -

Then the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal and celebrated the Passover H6453 on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - And on the [fn]day after the Passover H6453, on [fn]that very day, they ate some of the yield of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted grain.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 -

Then the king commanded all the people saying, “Celebrate the Passover H6453 to Yahweh your God as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - For such a Passover H6453 had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover H6453 was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1 -

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem to [fn]celebrate the Passover H6453 to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2 - And the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to celebrate the Passover H6453 in the second month,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5 - So they established a decree to make a [fn]proclamation pass throughout all Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to celebrate the Passover H6453 to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem. For they had not celebrated it in great numbers as it was written.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - Then they slaughtered the Passover H6453 lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and set themselves apart as holy and brought burnt offerings to the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - For there were many in the assembly who had not set themselves apart as holy; therefore, the Levites were over the slaughter of the Passover H6453 lambs for everyone who was unclean, in order to set them apart as holy to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover H6453 otherwise than what was written. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May Yahweh, who is good, atone
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 -

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover H6453 to Yahweh in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover H6453 animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - “Now slaughter the Passover H6453 animals, sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 -

And Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover H6453 offerings H6453, numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officials also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover H6453 offerings H6453 2,600 from the flocks and 300 bulls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the [fn]officials of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover H6453 offerings H6453 5,000 from the flocks and 500 bulls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11 - And [fn]they slaughtered the Passover H6453 animals, and while the priests splashed [fn]the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - So they roasted the Passover H6453 animals on the fire according to the legal judgment, and they boiled the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried them speedily to all the lay people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 -

So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover H6453, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh according to the commandment of King Josiah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:17 - Thus the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover H6453 at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - And there had not been celebrated a Passover H6453 like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover H6453 as Josiah celebrated with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover H6453 was celebrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 -

And the exiles celebrated the Passover H6453 on the fourteenth of the first month.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20 - For the priests and the Levites had cleansed themselves together; all of them were clean. Then they slaughtered the Passover H6453 lamb for all the exiles, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 -

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover H6453, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

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