פָּסֵחַ
Paseah
BDB lists 4 entries for ‘Paseah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6454 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 3:6 פָּסֵ֔חַ n Proper The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
- Nehemiah 7:51 פָסֵֽחַ n Proper the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פסח — transliterated Pâçêach — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Paseah.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Nehemiah (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in 1 Chronicles 4:12. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6454 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 2 verses 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 25%
- Ezra 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Paseah 3×
- American Standard Version: Paseah 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Paseah 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Paseah 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6454 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6454 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6454 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6454 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. in Judah 1 Ch 4:12, Βεσσηε, Φεσση, etc. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:12
- 2. head of post-ex. family Ezr 2:49 = Ne 7:51, Φισον, etc., 𝔊L Φασσα. e.g. Ezra 2:49
- 3. father of wall-builder Ne 3:6, Φασεκ, Φεσσε. e.g. Nehemiah 3:6
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (limper);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פסח (pâçach) (H6452) — to skip.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פָּסַח
- (b. h.) to leap over; to spare. Ex. R. s. 15 שאני פוֹסֵחַ עליכם ומגין וכ׳ I (the Lord) will pass over and protect you. Pes. X, 5 פֶּסַח על שום שפ׳ המקום וכ׳ the Passover lamb is symbolical of the fact that the Lord passed over the houses &c.
- (denom. of פִּסֵּחַ) to become lame. Y. Ber. I, 3ᶜ bot. ונ׳ ונתרפא and became lame, but was cured; Gen. R. s. 39; a. e.
פסח
- , Targ. Is. XXXIII, 12 מפסחין, v. פְּסַךְ
פִּסֵּחַ
- preced. art.) limping, lame. Sifra Emor ch. II, Par. 3 פ׳ בין חגר וכ׳ ‘lame’ (Lev. XXI, 18), whether lame on both feet or on one. Sifré Deut. 126; a. e.—Pl. פִּסְּחִים, פִּי׳. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXXVI (ref. to II Sam. V, 6) העורים והפ׳ אלו הצלמים ‘the blind and the lame’ means the idols; Yalk. Gen. 82 (with ref. to Ps. CXV, 5-7). e.g. Leviticus 21:18
פֶּסַח
- preced. wds.) Passover festival; (sub. זבח) Passover sacrifice, Passover meal. Pes. V, 1 (58ᵃ) חל ערב פ׳ וכ׳ (Mish. ed. ערבי פסחים; Y. ed. ערב פסחים) if the eve of Passover occurred on a Friday. Ib. 2 הפ׳ ששחטו וכ׳ if they slaughtered a Passover lamb not as such. Ib. IX, 9 חבורה שאבדה פִסְחָהּ a party that lost its dedicated Passover lamb. Ib. 5, a. fr. פ׳ מצרים, פ׳ דורות, v. דּוֹר. Ib. 3, a. fr. פ׳ ראשון the first Passover, i.e. that celebrated on the fifteenth of Nisan; פ׳ שני the second (vicarious) Passover, on the eve of the fifteenth of Iyar (Num. IX, 10 sq.); a. v. fr.—Pl. פְּסָחִים. Ib. 10 שתי … שנתערבו פִּסְחֵיהֶן two parties whose Passover sacrifices were mixed up. Ib. X, 6 ונאכל שם … ומן הפ׳ וכ׳ that there we may partake of the offerings and the Passover sacrifices &c.; a. fr.—ערבי (ערב) פ׳, v. supra. Ib. 1; a. fr.—P’saḥim, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moëd, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Y’rushalmi. e.g. Numbers 9:10
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6454 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פָּסֵ֔חַ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:12 | 2 |
| פָסֵ֖חַ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:49 | 1 |
| פָסֵֽחַ | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 7:51 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6454, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Paseah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(lame).
+ Son of Eshton, in an obscure fragment of the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:12) + The "sons of Paseah" were among the Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:49)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
passing over; halting
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
