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|Full diacritics=πάσχα
|Medium diacritics=πάσχα
|Low diacritics=πάσχα
|Capitals=ΠΑΣΧΑ
|Transliteration A=páscha
|Transliteration B=pascha
|Transliteration C=pascha
|Beta Code=pa/sxa
|Definition=τό, indecl., the Hebrew <span class="title">Passover</span> (from <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pāsa[hudot ]</b> 'pass over') or <b class="b2">Paschal feast</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>12.48</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">paschal supper</b>, Ev.Matt. 26.17, 19,al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">paschal lamb</b>, <b class="b3">θύειν τὸ π</b>. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>12.21</span>, al. ; τὸ π. ἐτύθη Χριστός <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Cor.</span>5.7</span>.</span>
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{{ls
|lstext='''πάσχα''': τό, ἄκλ., τὸ Ἑβραϊκὸν Φάσκα (ἐκ τοῦ pâsach [[παρέρχομαι]]) ἢ τοῦ [[πάσχα]] [[ἑορτή]], Ἑβδ. (Ἔξοδ. ΙΒ΄, 48, κ. ἀλλαχοῦ), Καιν. Διαθ.· - τὸ [[δεῖπνον]] τοῦ [[πάσχα]], Εὐαγγ. κ. Ματθ. κϚ΄, 17, 19, κ. ἀλλ.· - ὁ πασχάλιος [[ἀμνός]], θύειν τὸ π. Ἑβδ. (Ἔξοδ. ΙΒ΄, 21, κ. ἀλλ.)· - πασχάζω, [[ἑορτάζω]] τὸ [[πάσχα]], Ἐκκλ.· - πασχάλιος, α, ον, ὁ ἀνήκων εἰς τὸ [[πάσχα]], ἑορτὴ [[αὐτόθι]]: πασχαλικοί, οἱ, οἱ ἀφωσιωμένοι εἰς τὴν τήρησιν τοῦ [[πάσχα]], [[αὐτόθι]]: ὅρα Suicer.
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{{StrongGR
|strgr=of Chaldee [[origin]] ([[compare]] פָּ֫סַח); the Passover (the [[meal]], the [[day]], the [[festival]] or the [[special]] sacrifices [[connected]] [[with]] it): Easter, Passover.
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{{Thayer
|txtha=τό (Chaldean פִּסְחָא, [[Hebrew]] פֶּסַח, from פָּסַח, to [[pass]] [[over]], to [[pass]] [[over]] by [[sparing]]; the Sept. [[also]] [[constantly]] [[use]] the Chaldean [[form]] [[πάσχα]], [[except]] in 2Chron. (and φασεκ; Josephus has φασκα, Antiquities 5,1, 4; 14,2, 1; 17,9, 13; b. j. 2,1, 3), an indeclinable [[noun]] (Winer s Grammar, § 10,2); [[properly]], a [[passing]] [[over]];<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the paschal [[sacrifice]] ([[which]] [[was]] [[accustomed]] to be offered for the [[people]]'s [[deliverance]] of [[old]] from [[Egypt]]), or<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the paschal [[lamb]], i. e. the [[lamb]] [[which]] the Israelites were [[accustomed]] to [[slay]] and [[eat]] on the fourteenth [[day]] of the [[month]] Nisan (the [[first]] [[month]] of [[their]] [[year]]) in [[memory]] of [[that]] [[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 (Exodus 12; Numbers 9; Deuteronomy 16): θύειν τό [[πάσχα]] (הַפֶסַח שָׁחַט), [[φαγεῖν]] τό [[πάσχα]], הָפֶסַח אָכַל, the paschal [[supper]]: ἑτοιμάζειν τό [[πάσχα]], ποιεῖν τό [[πάσχα]] to [[celebrate]] the paschal [[meal]], the paschal [[festival]], the [[feast]] of Passover, extending from the fourteenth to the [[twentieth]] [[day]] of the [[month]] Nisan: πεποίηκε τό [[πάσχα]] he instituted the Passover (of Moses), Winer s Grammar, 272 (256); Buttmann, 197 (170)); γίνεται τό [[πάσχα]] the Passover is [[celebrated]] (R. V. cometh), BB. DD. [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Passover>; Dillmann in Schenkel iv., p. 392ff; and on the [[question]] of the [[relation]] of the Last Supper to the Jewish Passover, [[see]] (in [[addition]] to references in BB. DD. as [[above]]) Kirchner, [[die]] Jüdische Passahfeier u. Jesu letztes Mahl. Gotha, 1870; Keil, Com. über Matth., pp. 513-528; J. B. McClellan, The N. T. etc. i., pp. 473-494; [[but]] [[especially]] Schürer, Ueber [[φαγεῖν]] τό [[πάσχα]], akademische Festschrift (Giessen, 1883).) 
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{{lsm
|lsmtext='''πάσχα:''' τό, άκλιτο, το Εβραϊκό [[Πάσχα]] (από το pâsach, [[διέρχομαι]], περνώ από μέσα), το πασχαλινό [[δείπνο]], σε Καινή Διαθήκη
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{{elru
|elrutext='''πάσχα:''' τό (евр.) indecl. пасха NT.
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{{mdlsj
|mdlsjtxt=[[Hebrew]] [[word]]<br />the [[Hebrew]] Passover (from pasach to [[pass]] [[over]]), the paschal [[supper]], NTest.
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