(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
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Examples for "Passover "
1 Because the Passover is the season of the harvest of the grain.
2 And this is why it was called the feast of the Passover .
3 The Passover rites were carried out-theduties were performed-theceremonies were observed.
4 Again we are at Jerusalem to the Passover Feast of the Jews.
5 The Passover was at hand, and many pilgrims were on the march.
1 Such is the festival they call Pesah .
2 With the feast of unleavened bread (Massoth) is conjoined, especially in D, the feast of the sacrifice of the male firstborn of cattle ( Pesah ) .
1 This was during the feast of the unleavened bread .
2 Azymes... That is, the feast of the unleavened bread .
3 Azymes... Feast of the unleavened bread .
4 34:18: Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread .
5 .That is, the feast of the unleavened bread .
1 Today was Pesach , a joyful celebration, a day of liberation and redemption.
2 But today we were also celebrating the first days of Pesach .
3 The Seder meal is at the heart of the Jewish Passover or Pesach festival.
4 Jacob Federn had chosen to go hungry rather than eat leavened bread during Pesach .
5 Pesach 's fiddle played the accompaniment to many other people's thoughts.
6 This is used as a vinegar during Pesach and to make beet soup, Russian style.
7 There hasn't even been an engagement since Belcovitch's eldest daughter betrothed herself to Pesach Weingott.
8 As they did every year at Pesach , almost the whole of the Zurich family had gathered together.
9 'I think I'll have a new pair of trousers made for Pesach . '
10 About three weeks before Pesach take twenty pounds of beet-root, which must be thoroughly washed and scraped.
11 The bridegroom, who halted a little on one leg, was a tall sallow man named Pesach Weingott.
12 Pesach colored up and those in the secret laughed; the reference was to another of Pesach 's early ideas.
13 Half a block away, I saw Reyzl leaving the print shop and heading home for the Pesach feast.
14 Pesach swallowed the concoction, murmuring "To life" afresh.
15 Just as they remember that we slaughter little children, always before Pesach , and bake their blood in matzohs.
16 Everything's upside down in our house at the moment, if only Pesach weren't coming up... My parents, you know.'
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