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Definition of Pesah
1. Noun. (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Category relationships: Judaism
Generic synonyms: Movable Feast, Moveable Feast
Specialized synonyms: Pasch, Pascha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pesah
Literary usage of Pesah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The name (Hebr. pesah; Aram. ¡risha'; Gk. pascha) is given to the lamb which was
offered as an immunity-sacrifice at In the the opening of the feast; ..."
2. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"This service was to be observed as an ordinance forever (Ex 12 14.24), and the
night was to be Ш 3. pesah least, ''to be much observed" of all the doroth ..."
3. The Book of Exodus: With Introduction and Notes by Alan Hugh McNeile (1908)
"It is, however, far from improbable that the name pesah is a corruption of an
earlier word from a different root. It might, for instance, ..."
4. Similarities of Redaction of the Gospel According to Matthew, with Texts of by Pasi K. Pohjala (2006)
"pesah. 50b considers working on the eve of Shabbath, and other days TNW ... pesah.
12b is a part of complicated discussion about giving testimony, ..."
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