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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 26
    spellings

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.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

פֶּסֶלpeselidolUses31

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.

    Exodus 12:11

    • 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.

    Exodus 12:21

    • 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.

    Exodus 12:27

    • 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.

    Exodus 12:43

    • 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.

    Exodus 12:48

    • 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.

    Exodus 34:25

    • 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.

    Leviticus 23:5

    • פֶּ֖סַחpesachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a passover

Numbers

eleven uses
  • “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

    Numbers 9:2

    • הַפָּ֖סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover
  • So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,

    Numbers 9:4

    • 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.

    Numbers 9:5

    • 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

    Numbers 9:6

    • 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.

    Numbers 9:10

    • 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.

    Numbers 9:12

    • 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.

    Numbers 9:13

    • 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.’”

    Numbers 9:14

    • 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.

    Numbers 28:16

    • 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,

    Numbers 33:3

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 16:1

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 16:2

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 16:5

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 16:6

    • 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.

    Joshua 5:10

    • 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.

    Joshua 5:11

    • 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.”

    2 Kings 23:21

    • 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.

    2 Kings 23:22

    • 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.

    2 Kings 23:23

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 30:1

    • 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,

    2 Chronicles 30:2

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 30:5

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 30:15

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 30:17

    • 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

    2 Chronicles 30:18

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:1

    • 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.”

    2 Chronicles 35:6

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:7

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:8

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:9

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:11

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:13

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:16

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:17

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:18

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:19

    • 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.

    Ezra 6:19

    • 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.

    Ezra 6:20

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 45:21

    • הַפָּ֑סַחhapasachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the passover

The letters

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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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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