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Strong's H6453 פֶּסַח (pecach)

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

Strong's Number H6453
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 46
Books 9

Strong's H6453 Quick Answer

Strong's H6453 פֶּסַח (pecach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. pecach (peh'-sakh) n-m. 1. a pretermission, i.e. exemption 2. used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim) It has 46 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include passover and passovers. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
pecach (peh'-sakh) n-m. 1. a pretermission, i.e. exemption 2. used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
9 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
passover and passovers

Meaning and Definition

pecach (peh'-sakh) n-m. 1. a pretermission, i.e. exemption 2. used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim) [from H6452] KJV: passover (offering). Root(s): H6452

Original Word
פֶּסַח
Transliteration
pecach
Derivation
Root: פסח First root strongs: 6452
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6453. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Passover

Usage: Passover, 1a) sacrifice of passover 1b) animal victim of the passover 1c) festival of the passover Also named: pascha (πάσχα "Passover lamb" G3957)

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How Strong's H6453 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pecach, 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 Exodus 12:11 45× passovers 2 Chronicles 30:17

How Strong's H6453 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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 Old Testament with 46 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6453 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 H6453 in the Old Testament

46 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 12:11 KJV

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover.

Exodus 12:21 KJV

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

Exodus 12:27 KJV

That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6453.

Exodus 12:11 Old Testament, KJV
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover.
Exodus 12:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exodus 12:27 Old Testament, KJV
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Exodus 12:43 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
Exodus 12:48 Old Testament, KJV
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus 34:25 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
Leviticus 23:5 Old Testament, KJV
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.
Numbers 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Numbers 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Numbers 9:5 Old Testament, KJV
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
Numbers 9:10 Old Testament, KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Numbers 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
Numbers 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Numbers 9:14 Old Testament, KJV
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Numbers 28:16 Old Testament, KJV
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
Numbers 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
Deuteronomy 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
Deuteronomy 16:6 Old Testament, KJV
But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
Joshua 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 5:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
2 Kings 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
2 Kings 23:22 Old Testament, KJV
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2 Kings 23:23 Old Testament, KJV
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:2 Old Testament, KJV
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles 30:5 Old Testament, KJV
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
2 Chronicles 30:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:17 Old Testament, KJV
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:18 Old Testament, KJV
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
2 Chronicles 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles 35:6 Old Testament, KJV
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 35:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles 35:8 Old Testament, KJV
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:9 Old Testament, KJV
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
2 Chronicles 35:13 Old Testament, KJV
And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
2 Chronicles 35:16 Old Testament, KJV
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
2 Chronicles 35:18 Old Testament, KJV
And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 35:19 Old Testament, KJV
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
Ezra 6:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra 6:20 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 45:21 Old Testament, KJV
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6453, grouped by book.

Exodus 6 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 10 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 17 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6453 FAQ

What does pecach (פֶּסַח) mean?

Pecach (Strong's H6453) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "pretermission". pecach (peh'-sakh) n-m. 1. a pretermission, i.e. exemption 2. used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim)

How many times is pecach (פֶּסַח) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's H6453 across 9 books.

Where can I study pecach (פֶּסַח) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6453 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate pecach (פֶּסַח)?

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