Lexical Summary pesach: passover Original Word: פֶסַחTransliteration: pesach Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-sakh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: passover Meaning: a pretermission, exemption, Passover Strong's Concordance passover offering From pacach; a pretermission, i.e. Exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim) -- passover (offering). see HEBREW pacach Brown-Driver-Briggs H6453. pesach מֶּ֫סַח noun masculine passover (usually (Thes and most) from I. פסח, with reference to Exodus 12:13 etc.; ReussGeschichte. AT § 58 passing over into new year; SchaeferPassah-Mazzoth (1900), 346 compare Assyrian pašâ—u, soothe, placate [deity], < be soothed, Pi`el transitive, JenZA iv (1889), 275 ZimBabylonian Rel. i (1896). Glossary; ii (1899), 92; SchwIdiot, 124 from II. פסח, of sacred dance); — absolute ׳פ 12:11 +; מָּ֑סַח 12:21 +; plural מְּסָחִים2 Chronicles 30:17 3t.; — 1 sacrifice of Passover, involving communion-meal, hence a species of peace-offering (compare I. זֶבַח II. 2), פ ׳זֶבַח לי ׳הוא Exodus 12:27 (J), compare 12:11 (P); פ ׳זָבַח Deuteronomy 16:2, 5, 6; הפ ׳אבל2 Chronicles 30:18; the special feature lay in the application of blood to homes to consecrate them: compare simile Babylonian rite of purification Zimib. ii. 126-7. 2 the animal victim of the passover: פ ׳שׁחט Exodus 12:21 (J) 2 Chronicles 30:15; 35:1; 35:6; 35:11; Ezra 6:20, compare 2 Chronicles 30:17; הפ ׳בשׁל באשׁ35:13; לפסחים35:7-8, 9. [Passover animals (compare BrHex.206) were צאֹן flock Exodus 12:21 (J), שֶׁה 12:3; 12:4; 12:5, including כֶּבֶשׁ and עֵז 12:5 (P); ובקר צאן Deuteronomy 16:2; large numbers of all these (שֶׂה not used) in Josiah's Passover, active to 2 Chronicles 35:7-8, 9, but evident mingling of whole burnt-offerings for the passover with special passover victim.] 3 festival of the passover : הפ ׳חג Exodus 34:25 (J); ׳(ה)פ Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 28:16; 33:3; Joshua 5:11 (P) Ezekiel 45:21; הפ ׳חֻקַּת Exodus 12:43; Numbers 9:12, 14 (P); פ ׳עשׂה Exodus 12:48; Numbers 9:2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14; Joshua 5:10 (P) Deuteronomy 16:1; 2 Kings 23:21-22, 23; 2 Chronicles 30:1-2, 5; 35:1, 16, 17, 18 (twice in verse); 35:19; Ezra 6:19; it was held in month הָאָבִיב Deuteronomy 16:1, בָּעָ֑רֶב 16:6; on 14th day Joshua 5:10 (P), of 1st month Ezekiel 45:21; הערבים בֵּין (Exodus 12:6) Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:5 (P); if impossible at that time, then on 14th of 2nd month 9:10, 12. [No reference to מֶּסַח in E; J subordinates it to מַצּוֺת (the great feast of J E); in D it predominates over מצות; P makes it first in importance (BrHex.195f.)].] |
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