p 3 a 1 s 1 s 1 o 1 v 4 e 1 r 1
8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
originDeverbal from pass over as a calque of Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh, “to pass over”) (see sense 1), coined by the English Biblical scholar and linguist William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536), in his 1530 translation of Exodus 12 of the Bible, the first in modern English: see the quotation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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- pavers 11
- pervos 11
- proves 11
- vapors 11
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- parvo 10
- paver 10
- paves 10
- pervo 10
- pervs 10
- prove 10