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Strong's G3957 πάσχα (pascha)

Pascha means “Passover” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3957 — lishkah (“chamber”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3957
Language Greek
Linked Usages 67
Books 16

Strong's G3957 Quick Answer

Strong's G3957 πάσχα (pascha) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pascha (pas'-khah) aram. 1. the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it) [of Chaldee origin] It has 67 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include passover and easter. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
pascha (pas'-khah) aram. 1. the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it) [of Chaldee origin]
Usage
67 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
passover and easter

Meaning and Definition

pascha (pas'-khah) aram. 1. the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it) [of Chaldee origin] KJV: Easter, Passover Compare: H6453

Original Word
πάσχα
Transliteration
pascha
Morphology
Aramaic

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3957. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

Passover lamb

Usage: πάσχα, τό indecl. (Aram. טַּסְחָא), [in LXX for פֶּסַח ;] __1. the festival of the Passover: Mat.26:2, Mrk.14:1, Luk.22:1, Jhn.2:13, 23 6:4 11:55 12:1 18:39 19:14, Act.12:4, Heb.11:28; .ἡ ἐορτὴ τοῦ π., Luk.2:41, Jhn.13:1. __2. By meton., __(a) the paschal supper: ἑτοιμάζειν τὸ π., Mat.26:19, Mrk.14:16, Luk.22:8, 13; ποιεῖν τό π., Mat.26:18; __(b) the pasohal lamb: θύειν τό π. (Exo.12:21), Mrk.14:12, Luk.22:7; of Christ, 1Co.5:7; φαγεῖν τὸ π. (lamb or supper), Mat.26:17, Mrk.14:12, 14, Luk.22:11, 15, Jhn.18:28 (cf.

2Ch.30:17).† (AS)

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How Strong's G3957 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pascha, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

passover Matthew 26:2 26× Easter Acts 12:4

How Strong's G3957 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 28 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3957 (πάσχα) appears 43 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3957 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3957 in the New Testament

27 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 26:2 KJV

Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

Matthew 26:17 KJV

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?

Matthew 26:18 KJV

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 at thy house with my disciples.

Strong's G3957 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 12:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And thus shall ye eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staffs in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover to the Lord.

Exodus 12:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses called all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to them, Go away and take to yourselves a lamb according to your kindred, and slay the Passover.

Exodus 12:27 Septuagint / Brenton

that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

Strong's G3957 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And Josiah held the feast of the Passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month;

1 Esdras 1:6 Septuagint / Brenton

offer the Passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto Moses.

1 Esdras 1:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Esyelus, the governors of the temple, gave to the priests for the Passover two thousand and six hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.

Usage Excerpts

First 67 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3957.

Exodus 12:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thus shall ye eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staffs in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover to the Lord.
Exodus 12:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses called all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to them, Go away and take to yourselves a lamb according to your kindred, and slay the Passover.
Exodus 12:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.
Exodus 12:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no stranger shall eat of it.
Exodus 12:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if any proselyte shall come to you to keep the Passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise every male of him, and then shall he approach to sacrifice it, and he shall be even as the original inhabitant of the land; no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Exodus 34:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifices with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the Passover remain till the morning.
Leviticus 23:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evening times is the Lord’s Passover.
Numbers 9:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its season.
Numbers 9:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses ordered the children of Israel to sacrifice the Passover,
Numbers 9:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
Numbers 9:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the Passover to the Lord,
Numbers 9:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the Passover.
Numbers 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatsoever man shall be clean, and is not far off on a journey, and shall fail to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he has not offered the gift to the Lord in its season: that man shall bear his iniquity.
Numbers 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the Passover to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the Passover and according to its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the native of the land.
Numbers 28:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Passover to the Lord.
Numbers 33:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 16:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Observe the month of new corn, and thou shalt sacrifice the Passover to the Lord thy God; because in the month of new corn thou camest out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover to the Lord thy God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called upon it.
Deuteronomy 16:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not have power to sacrifice the Passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.
Deuteronomy 16:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, to have his name called there, thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when thou camest out of Egypt.
Joshua 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain.
4 Kingdoms 23:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
4 Kingdoms 23:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a Passover such as this had not been kept from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah.
4 Kingdoms 23:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, was the Passover kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
Ezra 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra 6:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Ezra 6:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezekiel 45:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the feast of the Passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Matthew 26:2 New Testament, KJV
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Matthew 26:17 New Testament, KJV
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?
Matthew 26:18 New Testament, KJV
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 at thy house with my disciples.
Matthew 26:19 New Testament, KJV
And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
Mark 14:1 New Testament, KJV
After two days was the feast of the passover, 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 New Testament, KJV
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?
Mark 14:14 New Testament, KJV
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 with my disciples?
Mark 14:16 New Testament, KJV
And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Luke 2:41 New Testament, KJV
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Luke 22:1 New Testament, KJV
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Luke 22:7 New Testament, KJV
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
Luke 22:8 New Testament, KJV
And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke 22:11 New Testament, KJV
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 with my disciples?
Luke 22:13 New Testament, KJV
And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Luke 22:15 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
John 2:13 New Testament, KJV
And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2:23 New Testament, KJV
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
John 6:4 New Testament, KJV
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
John 11:55 New Testament, KJV
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
John 12:1 New Testament, KJV
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John 13:1 New Testament, KJV
Now before the feast of the passover, 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 New Testament, KJV
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.
John 18:39 New Testament, KJV
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
John 19:14 New Testament, KJV
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
Acts 12:4 New Testament, KJV
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 to bring him forth to the people.
1 Corinthians 5:7 New Testament, KJV
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Hebrews 11:28 New Testament, KJV
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
1 Esdras 1:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Josiah held the feast of the Passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month;
1 Esdras 1:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
offer the Passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto Moses.
1 Esdras 1:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Esyelus, the governors of the temple, gave to the priests for the Passover two thousand and six hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.
1 Esdras 1:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jeconiah, and Shemaiah, and Nethanel his brother, and Hashabiah, and Ochiel, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the Passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.
1 Esdras 1:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests their brethren, the sons of Aaron.
1 Esdras 1:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
1 Esdras 1:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, that they might hold the Passover,
1 Esdras 1:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josiah.
1 Esdras 1:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So the children of Israel which were present held the Passover at that time, and the feast of sweet bread seven days.
1 Esdras 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And such a Passover was not kept in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.
1 Esdras 7:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel that were of the captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, after that the priests and the Levites were sanctified,
1 Esdras 7:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And so they offered the Passover for all them of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3957, grouped by book.

Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 4 usages, New Testament
Mark 4 usages, New Testament
Luke 7 usages, New Testament
John 9 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 12 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3957 FAQ

What does pascha (πάσχα) mean?

Pascha (Strong's G3957) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Passover". pascha (pas'-khah) aram. 1. the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it) [of Chaldee origin]

How many times is pascha (πάσχα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 67 linked usages for Strong's G3957 across 16 books.

Where can I study pascha (πάσχα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3957 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate pascha (πάσχα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as passover and easter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3957 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 12 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3957, with linked reader references where each row is available.