Greek n · G3957
πάσχα
paschapas'-khah
the festival of the Passover; By meton.
29 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: páscha
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3957is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3957
the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it)
The King James renders it: Easter, Passover.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pascha is rendered "the festival of the Passover; By meton.". It stands 29 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Ten of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "the festival of the Passover".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 26:2“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
Matthew 26:2πάσχα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: the festival of the Passover, and By meton..
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the festival of the PassoverMat.26:2 | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 26:2“You know that the Passover is two days away… |
| By meton.__(a) the paschal supper | Tagged as
| WhereExodus 12:21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 29, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πάσχα25
- πάσχα.¶3
- πάσχα;¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular15N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular7N-NSN-T
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular5N-GSN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2N-DSN
Matthew
four uses
“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- πάσχα;¶paschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’”
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.
- πάσχα.¶paschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Mark
five uses
Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover lamb
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
So the disciples left and went into the city, where they found everything as Jesus had described. And they prepared the Passover.
- πάσχα.¶paschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Luke
seven uses
Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
- πάσχα.¶paschanoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover lamb
Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare for us to eat the Passover.”
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
and say to the owner of that house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
So they went and found it just as Jesus had told them. And they prepared the Passover.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
John
ten uses
When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
- πάσχαpaschanoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passover. So then, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
- πάσχαpaschanoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
- πάσχαpaschanoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Acts
one use
He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
1 Corinthians
one use
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Passover lamb
Hebrews
one use
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
- πάσχαpaschanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Passover
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.