Pascha

pas'-khah
Parts of Speech Noun Neuter

Pascha Definition

NAS Word Usage - Total: 29
  1. the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt)
  2. the paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of the 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; Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb
  3. the paschal supper
  4. the paschal feast, the feast of the Passover, extending from the 14th to the 20th day of the month Nisan
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
pasca
Origin
of Aramaic origin cf (06453)
Strong's Number
3957
TDNT Entry
5:896,797

NAS Word Usage

Passover
29
Total
29

Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Pascha". "The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon". . 1999. . 1999.