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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

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 Box Exo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - This is how you are to eat it - dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD'S Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, "Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - then you will say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.'" The people bowed down low to the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - "When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land - but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - "You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - "The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - "Tell the Israelites, 'If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - If a resident foreigner lives among you and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have the same statute for the resident foreigner and for the one who was born in the land.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - "'On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD's Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly in plain sight of all the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 - Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

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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 your villages that the LORD your God is giving you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 - The king ordered all the people, "Observe the Passover of the LORD your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, such a Passover of the LORD was observed in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:1 - Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the LORD's temple in Jerusalem and observe a Passover celebration for the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2 - The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:5 - So they sent an edict throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people to come and observe a Passover for the LORD God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the LORD's temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: "May the LORD, who is good, forgive

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Josiah observed a Passover festival for the LORD in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to do what the LORD commanded through Moses."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God's temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Konaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, along with Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the officials of the Levites, supplied the Levites with 5,000 Passover sacrifices and 500 cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11 - They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, while the Levites skinned the animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - They cooked the Passover sacrifices over the open fire as prescribed and cooked the consecrated offerings in pots, kettles, and pans. They quickly served them to all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the preparations for the LORD's service were made that day, as the Passover was observed and the burnt sacrifices were offered on the altar of the LORD, as prescribed by King Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:17 - So the Israelites who were present observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - A Passover like this had not been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had observed a Passover like the one celebrated by Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all the people of Judah and Israel who were there, and the residents of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was observed in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20 - The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.
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