פֶּ֫סַח

Exodus 12:11 פֶּ֥סַח [is] a passover

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Here: This is the first time the word appears in the Bible. It is placed first for emphasis: 'a pesach is what it is.' It names both the sacrificial animal and the rite, and it anticipates the verb pasach in vv. 13, 23 and 27, where YHWH 'passes over' or 'guards' the marked doors.

Exodus 12:21 הַפָּֽסַח׃ the passover

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:27 פֶּ֨סַח passover

you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 12:43 הַפָּ֑סַח the passover

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

Exodus 12:48 פֶסַח֮ a passover

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Here: Here it means the Passover lamb and the meal around it, the rite Israel 'does'. See study.

Exodus 34:25 הַפָּֽסַח׃ the passover

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

Leviticus 23:5 פֶּ֖סַח a passover

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Here: Here first of all the Passover offering: the lamb or kid killed at this hour (Exod 12:21, "slaughter the pesach"). Through it the word also names the rite. The noun has no article: "a pesach," a category of offering.

Numbers 9:2 הַפָּ֖סַח the passover

“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

Numbers 9:4 הַפָּֽסַח׃ the passover

So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,

Numbers 9:5 הַפֶּ֡סַח the passover

and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 9:6 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day

Here: Both the sacrificed animal and the whole rite built around it. Verse 7 calls it 'the LORD's offering', which is why purity is at stake.

Numbers 9:10 פֶ֖סַח a passover

“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

Numbers 9:12 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

Numbers 9:13 הַפֶּ֔סַח the passover

But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

Here: Both the sacrificial animal and the rite that remembers YHWH 'passing over' Israel's houses in Egypt (Exodus 12:13, 23, 27).

Numbers 9:14 פֶ֙סַח֙ הַפֶּ֛סַח a passover, the passover

If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”

Numbers 28:16 פֶּ֖סַח a passover

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

Here: The name of the rite. It covers both the sacrificed lamb or kid and the night of the rite. It recalls YHWH 'passing over' or 'shielding' Israel's houses (Exod 12:13, 23, 27).

Numbers 33:3 הַפֶּ֗סַח the passover

On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

Deuteronomy 16:1 פֶּ֔סַח a passover

Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Here: It names both the festival and the animal slaughtered for it (v. 2 says 'sacrifice the pesaḥ'). Here it has no article: 'a Passover', a rite you perform.

Deuteronomy 16:2 פֶּ֛סַח a passover

You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

Here: Here it is the animal itself, the Passover victim, not the festival as a whole. There is no article ('a passover'), which treats it as a kind of sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 16:5 הַפָּ֑סַח the passover

You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:6 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

Joshua 5:10 הַפֶּ֡סַח the passover

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

Joshua 5:11 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

2 Kings 23:21 פֶ֔סַח a passover

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

2 Kings 23:22 כַּפֶּ֣סַח like the passover

No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Kings 23:23 הַפֶּ֧סַח the passover

But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:1 פֶּ֔סַח a passover

Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 30:2 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

2 Chronicles 30:5 פֶּ֛סַח a passover

So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed.

2 Chronicles 30:15 הַפֶּ֔סַח the passover

And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:17 הַפְּסָחִ֗ים the passovers

Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:18 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone

Here: Here this means the Passover sacrifice itself, the slaughtered lamb or kid eaten as a holy meal, not merely the festival as a date.

2 Chronicles 35:1 פֶּ֖סַח הַפֶּ֔סַח a passover, the passover

Then Josiah kept the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 35:6 הַפָּ֑סַח the passover

Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.”

2 Chronicles 35:7 לַפְּסָחִים֒ for the passovers

From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.

2 Chronicles 35:8 לַפְּסָחִ֗ים for the passovers

His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.

2 Chronicles 35:9 לַפְּסָחִים֙ for the passovers

Additionally, Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, as well as Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites 5,000 Passover offerings and 500 bulls.

2 Chronicles 35:11 הַפָּ֑סַח the passover

And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests splattered the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.

Here: Not the festival but the animal: the Passover victim. Verse 7 says the flock animals given were 'lambs and young goats', so 'the Passover' covers both sheep and goats, as Exodus 12:5 allows.

2 Chronicles 35:13 הַפֶּ֛סַח the passover

They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.

Here: Not the festival as a whole but the Passover victim itself: the lambs and young goats slaughtered for the meal (v. 6–7). The article points to the specific Passover animals just slaughtered by the Levites.

2 Chronicles 35:16 הַפֶּ֔סַח the passover

So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:17 הַפֶּ֖סַח the passover

The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

Here: 'The Passover': the sacrifice of lambs and young goats at the temple and the meal that followed, on the 14th day of the first month (35:1). Here it covers both the animal and the observance.

2 Chronicles 35:18 פֶ֤סַח כַּפֶּ֣סַח a passover, like the passover

No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 35:19 הַפֶּ֥סַח the passover

In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.

Ezra 6:19 הַפָּ֑סַח the passover

On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.

Ezra 6:20 הַפֶּ֙סַח֙ the passover

All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.

Ezekiel 45:21 הַפָּ֑סַח the passover

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.