Passover

Senso (Inglese)

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).
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.

Concetti

Pasqua ebraica

Pasqua

pasqua

Pesach

Pesah

sinonimi

Pesach

Easter

Pesah

Pasch

Feast of the Unleavened Bread

Pesakh

Pascha

Eastertide

Traduzioni

Pâque

Pascha

Passahfest

Pessach

Pessa’h

Pessach

Passah

Pâques

Páscoa

Ostern

Pasen

Pésaj

Etimologia (Inglese)

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).