pasch
/ˈpæsk/
pasch noun: the feast of Passover or (specifically) the Paschal Lamb, or (for Christians), Easter, seen as the fulfillment of Passover.
Noun (1)
pasch
- The feast of Passover or (specifically) the Paschal Lamb, or (for Christians), Easter, seen as the fulfillment of Passover.
- And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: the master saith, My time is near at hand, with thee I make the pasch with my disciples.1749, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. […] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), Matthew...
- NOW the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.1749, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. […] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), Luke 22:1
- The Paschal Mystery; the death and resurrection of Jesus.
- The Man-God had scarcely returned to His Father when the Apostles hastened to establish a solemn festival to commemorate His pasch, that is to say, His glorious passage from death to life.1884, Jean Gaume, The Catechism of Perseverance; Or, An Historical, Dogmatical, Moral, Liturgical, Apologetical, Philosophical, and Social Exposition of Religion: From the Beginning of the World Down...
- The immediate future of his pasch is his saving death, through which humanity is reconciled. The long-term, eschatological future is found in the promise of his resurrection and embraces the whole future of the life of the Church […]1999, Anscar J. Chupungco, Handbook for Liturgical Studies: The Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 330
Noun (2) capitalized: Pasch
IPA/pæsk/
Pasch (plural Paschs)
pasch meaning in Bengali
pasch in Bengali
- পাসওভার, ইস্টার
Examples of pasch in a sentence
- D. 192, thus writes: ‘[…] (we find) the catholic church celebrate ^([sic]) pasch, not on the fourteenth of the moon, with the Jews, but from the fifteenth day to the twenty-first. […]’1843, Thomas SMYTH (D.D., of Charleston, S.C.), Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity ... Also, the Antiquity of...
- That the pasch must be taken in its usual sense of paschal lamb is clear from the words of the evangelists […].1898, A. J. Maas, The Gospel According to Saint-Matthew: With an Explanatory and Critical Commentary, page 262:
- Rather, an ecclesiology nourished in the book of Nehemiah continually returns to Christ's pasch, to the people of God's dependence upon divine mercy in Christ.2007 10, Matthew Levering, Ezra & Nehemiah, Brazos Press, →ISBN, page 212:
- (2) Jesus' pasch, his death and resurrection (from which there is no reason to exclude his life), is gospel, to which we respond substantially in orthodoxy; […]2015, Jon Sobrino, Christ the Liberator: A View from the Victims, Orbis Books, →ISBN:
Forms of pasch
| plural | Paschs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pasch |
Origin of pasch
Borrowed from Latin pascha. Perhaps also influenced by Old Norse páskar and its derivatives.
From Middle English Pask, Paske, Paskes, from Old French pasches (modern French Pâques), from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (pasḥā), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésaḥ). Doublet of Pascha, paska, paskha, and Pesach.
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Questions about pasch
- What does pasch mean?
- Pasch means the feast of Passover or (specifically) the Paschal Lamb, or (for Christians), Easter, seen as the fulfillment of Passover.
- What is pasch in Bengali?
- Pasch in Bengali is পাসওভার, ইস্টার. See Pasch meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use pasch in a sentence?
- D. 192, thus writes: ‘[…] (we find) the catholic church celebrate ^([sic]) pasch, not on the fourteenth of the moon, with the Jews, but from the fifteenth day to the twenty-first. […]’
- What part of speech is pasch?
- Pasch is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pasch?
- Pasch is pronounced /ˈpæsk/.
- What is the plural of pasch?
- The plural of pasch is Paschs.
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