פֶּסַח
peçach · peh'-sakh
a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6452 (פָּסַח);
a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)
- a pretermission, i.e. exemption
- used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: passover (offering).
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › to support and uphold › to separate and protect
To speak, the word that works to support and uphold that works to separate and protect.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פֶּסַח above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the passover28 · 57%
- of the passover4 · 8%
- passover3 · 6%
- after the passover2 · 4%
- such a passover2 · 4%
- is the passover1 · 2%
- wherein this passover1 · 2%
- of the passovers1 · 2%
- a passover1 · 2%
- all for the passover offerings1 · 2%
- for the passover offerings1 · 2%
- for passover offerings1 · 2%
- and there was no passover1 · 2%
- was this passover1 · 2%
- ye shall have the passover1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.