Passover
pas·so·ver
noun
(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
Origin
Deverbal 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. Displaced native Old English færeld.
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