Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6453
פֶּסַח
pesachpeh'-sakh
Passover
49 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: peçach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6453is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6453
a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)
The King James renders it: passover (offering).
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
pesach is rendered "Passover". It stands 49 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:11This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
Exodus 12:11פֶּ֥סַח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nineteen of the word's forty-nine uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the passover29
- a passover13
- for the passovers3
- like the passover2
- passover1
- the passovers1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פֶּסֶל | pesel | idol | Uses31 |
The words it stands beside
All 49, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 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
- הַפֶּ֖סַח7
- הַפָּ֑סַח6
- הַפֶּ֔סַח4
- הַפָּֽסַח׃3
- פֶּ֖סַח3
- הַפֶּ֡סַח2
- הַפֶּ֛סַח2
- כַּפֶּ֣סַח2
- פֶּ֔סַח2
- פֶּ֛סַח2
- הַפֶּ֗סַח1
- הַפֶּ֧סַח1
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular29HTd/Ntmsa
- noun · masculine singular14HNtmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural3HRd/Ntmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ntmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ntmpa
Exodus
six uses
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
- פֶּ֥סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
- הַפָּֽסַח׃hapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
- פֶּ֨סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: passover
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
- פֶסַח֮fesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
- הַפָּֽסַח׃hapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Leviticus
one use
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- פֶּ֖סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
Numbers
eleven uses
“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
- הַפָּ֖סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,
- הַפָּֽסַח׃hapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- הַפֶּ֡סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
- פֶ֖סַחfesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
- הַפֶּ֔סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
- פֶ֙סַח֙fesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
- הַפֶּ֛סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- פֶּ֖סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
- הַפֶּ֗סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Deuteronomy
four uses
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- פֶּ֔סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
- פֶּ֛סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
- הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Joshua
two uses
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
- הַפֶּ֡סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
2 Kings
three uses
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
- פֶ֔סַחfesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.
- כַּפֶּ֣סַחkapesachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the passover
But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
- הַפֶּ֧סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
2 Chronicles
nineteen uses
Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- פֶּ֔סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it as a nation as prescribed.
- פֶּ֛סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
- הַפֶּ֔סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.
- הַפְּסָחִ֗יםhapesachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the passovers
A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- פֶּ֖סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
- הַפֶּ֔סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.”
- הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.
- לַפְּסָחִים֒lapesachimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: for the passovers
His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the administrators of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.
- לַפְּסָחִ֗יםlapesachimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: for the passovers
Additionally, Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, as well as Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, donated to the Levites 5,000 Passover offerings and 500 bulls.
- לַפְּסָחִים֙lapesachimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: for the passovers
And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.
- הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.
- הַפֶּ֛סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
- הַפֶּ֔סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
- הַפֶּ֖סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
- פֶ֤סַחfesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover
- כַּפֶּ֣סַחkapesachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the passover
In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.
- הַפֶּ֥סַחhapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Ezra
two uses
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.
- הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.
- הַפֶּ֙סַח֙hapesachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Ezekiel
one use
On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
