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PESACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pesach mean? 

PESACH (noun)
  The noun PESACH has 1 sense:

1. (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egyptplay

  Familiarity information: PESACH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PESACH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah

Hypernyms ("Pesach" is a kind of...):

movable feast; moveable feast (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pesach"):

Pasch; Pascha (the Jewish feast of the Passover)


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