passover

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the Jewish spring festival commemorating the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt

   Their family gathers each year to celebrate passover.

Coined in English by William Tyndale in his sixteenth-century Bible translation as a rendering associated with Hebrew pesaḥ. It refers to the biblical account in which destruction passed over the Israelite households.

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