Páscha — G3957

Definition

neuter noun

the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it)

1. the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt), or
2. the paschal lamb, i. e. the lamb which the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of that day on which their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were bidden by God to slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door-posts with its blood, that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their dwellings
3. the paschal supper
4. the paschal festival, the feast of Passover, extending from the fourteenth to the twentieth day of the month Nisan

Usually translated as

Passover, Easter

Origin

of Chaldee origin (compare H6453)

Hebrew equivalents

• Peçach (H6453)

Occurrences

Páscha occurs 28 times in 26 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (4), Mark (4), Luke (7), John (9), Acts (1), Hebrews (1)

• Matthew 26:2 — Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover (πάσχα), and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
• Matthew 26:17 — Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover (πάσχα)?
• Matthew 26:18 — And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover (πάσχα) at thy house with my disciples.
• Matthew 26:19 — And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover (πάσχα).
• Mark 14:1 — After two days was the feast of the passover (πάσχα), and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
• Mark 14:12 — And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover (πάσχα), his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
• Mark 14:12 — And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover (πάσχα)?
• Mark 14:14 — And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover (πάσχα) with my disciples?
• Mark 14:16 — And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover (πάσχα).
• Luke 2:41 — Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover (πάσχα).
• Luke 22:1 — Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover (πάσχα).
• Luke 22:7 — Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover (πάσχα) must be killed.
• Luke 22:8 — And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover (πάσχα), that we may eat.
• Luke 22:11 — And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover (πάσχα) with my disciples?
• Luke 22:13 — And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover (πάσχα).
• Luke 22:15 — And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover (πάσχα) with you before I suffer:
• John 2:13 — And the Jews’ passover (πάσχα) was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
• John 2:23 — Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover (πάσχα), in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
• John 6:4 — And the passover (πάσχα), a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
• John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover (πάσχα) was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
• John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover (πάσχα), to purify themselves.
• John 12:1 — Then Jesus six days before the passover (πάσχα) came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
• John 13:1 — Now before the feast of the passover (πάσχα), when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
• John 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover (πάσχα).
• John 18:39 — But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover (πάσχα): will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
• John 19:14 — And it was the preparation of the passover (πάσχα), and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
• Acts 12:4 — And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter (πάσχα) to bring him forth to the people.
• Hebrews 11:28 — Through faith he kept the passover (πάσχα), and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.