Passover

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Alternative forms

• Passeouer (obsolete spelling)
• passover

Etymology

Deverbal from pass over. Coined by William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), the first translator of the Bible into modern English, as a calque of Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh).

Proper noun

Passover (plural Passovers)

1. The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14 / Nisan 14), during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual or yearly Sabbaths).
   • Leviticus 23:5–6 (New American Standard Bible)

     ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

2. The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus.

Synonyms

(the multi-day feast or festival):

• Feast of Matsot, Feast of Matzot (from Hebrew)
• Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Festival of Matsot, Festival of Matzot (from Hebrew)
• Festival of Unleavened Bread

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• paschal, Paschal
• Quartodeciman (“Fourteenther”)
• Quartodecimanism
• seder

Anagrams

• overpass