passover

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim 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 or Nisan 14), during which the firstborn sons of the Israelites were passed over by God 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 yearly Sabbaths).

   “By Faith he [Moses] ſlevv the Typick Lamb, / And kept the Paſſover of God: / He knevv from VVhom its Virtue came, / The Saving Povver of ſprinkled Blood.”

2. özel isim Synonym of Last Supper (“the meal that Jesus Christ ate with his disciples on the night before his death”).
3. özel isim Synonym of Paschal Lamb (“Jesus Christ symbolized as a sacrifice for the sins of humankind”).

   “Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a nevve lumpe, as ye are vnleauened: for Chriſt our Paſſeouer is ſacrificed for vs.”

4. özel isim The seven-day (in 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.

   “["][W]e are to be rewarded for our pains by eating passover cakes." / "What are they?" / "Festival bread of the Hebrews, made in the new moon, with the milk of he-goats."”

5. özel isim Synonym of Paschal Lamb (“the lamb traditionally eaten during Pesach”); also, the meal at which this lamb is eaten.

   “Then came the day of vnleauened bread, when the Paſſeouer muſt be killed. And he [Jesus] ſent Peter and John, ſaying, Goe and prepare vs the Paſſeouer, that we may eate.”

6. özel isim A lamb which was sacrificed during the original Passover (sense 1).

   “And Moſes called for the elders off Iſrael and ſayde vnto them: chouſe out and take to euery houſholde a ſhepe, ãd [and] kyll paſſeouer.”

7. özel isim A major festival or observance.

   “And by the firſt name [אביב (Avív)], the Indians, as an explicative, term their paſſover, vvhich the trading people call the green-corn dance.”

8. isim Alternative letter-case form of Passover.