פֶּסַח pesach

Hebrew word for “Passover” · Strong’s H6453 · used 49 times in 46 verses

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Meaning

Passover; 1a) sacrifice of passover;

How it is translated

Glosses given for pesach in context, with how often each is used:

• passover 43
• passovers 4
• like the passover 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 35 (11), Numbers 9 (8), 2 Chronicles 30 (6), Exodus 12 (5), Deuteronomy 16 (4), 2 Kings 23 (3), Joshua 5 (2), Ezra 6 (2), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 23 (1)

Forms

• הפסח 29
• פסח 14
• לפסחים 3
• כפסח 2
• הפסחים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pesach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 11
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 11
• שָׁחַט shachat “to slaughter” 7
• יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ yoshiyyah “Josiah” 6
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 8
• רִאשׁוֹן rishon “first” 7
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 7
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 6
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 6
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 6
• עֶרֶב erev “evening” 4
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 4

Key verses

The verses using pesach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 12:11 — And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.
• Exodus 12:21 — Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
• Exodus 12:48 — And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it;…
• Leviticus 23:5 — In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
• Numbers 9:6 — And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and…
• Numbers 9:13 — But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he…
• Numbers 28:16 — And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 16:1 — Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
• Deuteronomy 16:2 — Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
• 2 Chronicles 30:5 — So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD…
• 2 Chronicles 30:18 — For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise…
• 2 Chronicles 35:8 — And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.