What does "passover" mean?
Alternative letter-case form of Passover.
Passover
name, noun
name, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Alternative letter-case form of Passover.
- Grammar: passover is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: pesach, bypass, ceremony, cross.
- Useful contrasts: address, attend to, consider.
- Usage evidence: When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of Passover. alt-of
- 2 (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14 / Nisan 14), during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual or yearly Sabbaths).
"⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work."
- 2 The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus.
"Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate. But when Passover ends, that doesn’t mean we should put the chocolate cake, or the chocolate milk, away."
Example
"When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "passover"?
Common synonyms include: pesach, bypass, ceremony, cross, day of atonement, disregard.
How do you use "passover" in a sentence?
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Etymology
Deverbal from pass over. Coined by William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), the first translator of the Bible into modern English, as a calque of Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh).