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# פָּסַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6452

**pass over** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pass over [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6452/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּסַח: vb. pass spring over [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6452/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pass or spring over;— Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ Ex 12:27, וּפ׳ consec. v 23 (J); 1 s. וּפָסַחְתִּ֫י v 13 (P), all c. עַל, of י׳ passing over (sparing) houses of Isr.; Inf. abs. פָּסוֹחַ Is 31:5 a passing over (sc. עַל־יְרוּשָׁלַםִ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will pass over (1); he passed over (1); he will pass over (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 31:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.5/#tree)

כְּצִפֳּרִ֣ים עָפ֔וֹת כֵּ֗ן יָגֵ֛ן יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל־יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם גָּנ֥וֹן וְהִצִּ֖יל פָּסֹ֥חַ וְהִמְלִֽיט׃

*Word for word:* like birds flying so he.will.defend Yahweh of.hosts (on) Jerusalem he.will.defend.\[it\] and he.will.rescue.\[it\] he.will.pass.over.\[it\] and he.will.deliver.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* As birds hovering, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.

[Exodus 12:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.27/#tree)

וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֡ם זֶֽבַח־פֶּ֨סַח ה֜וּא לַֽיהוָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר פָּ֠סַח עַל־בָּתֵּ֤י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם בְּנָגְפּ֥וֹ אֶת־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְאֶת־בָּתֵּ֣ינוּ הִצִּ֑יל וַיִּקֹּ֥ד הָעָ֖ם וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say \[is\].a.sacrifice of.passover it to Yahweh who he.passed.over over the.houses of.the.people of.Israel in Egypt when struck he (et) Egypt and (et) houses our he.delivered and it.bowed.low the people and they.bowed.down

*JPS 1917:* that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, for that He 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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6452.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6452/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).