Strong's #3957: pascha (pronounced pas'-khah)

of Chaldee origin (compare 6453); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it):--Easter, Passover.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pascha

1) the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people' s deliverance of old from Egypt)

2) the paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of the 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; Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb

3) the paschal supper

4) the paschal feast, the feast of the Passover, extending from the 14th to the 20th day of the month Nisan

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Usage:

This word is used 29 times:

 

Matthew 26:2: "days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man"
Matthew 26:17: "for thee to eat the passover?"
Matthew 26:18: "at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my"
Matthew 26:19: "and they made ready the passover."
Mark 14:1: "days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the"
Mark 14:12: "when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him,"
Mark 14:12: "that thou mayest eat the passover?"
Mark 14:14: "guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"
Mark 14:16: "and they made ready the passover."
Luke 2:41: "every year at the feast of the passover."
Luke 22:1: "of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover."
Luke 22:7: "of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed."
Luke 22:8: "and prepare us the passover, that we may eat."
Luke 22:11: "where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"
Luke 22:13: "and they made ready the passover."
Luke 22:15: "I have desired to eat this passover with you before I"
John 2:13: "And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus"
John 2:23: "Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many"
John 6:4: "And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh."
John 11:55: "And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many"
John 11:55: "went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to"
John 12:1: "days before the passover came to Bethany, where"
John 13:1: "the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his"
John 18:28: "that they might eat the passover."
John 18:39: "one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you"
John 19:14: "it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour:"
Acts 12:4: "him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the"
1 Corinthians 5:7: "even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:"
Hebrews 11:28: "Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood,"