פֶּסַח m. (b. h.; preced. wds.) Passover festival; (sub. זבח) Passover sacrifice, Passover meal. Pes. V, 1 (58ᵃ) חל ערב פ׳ וכ׳ (Mish. ed. ערבי פסחים; Y. ed. ערב פסחים) if the eve of Passover occurred on a Friday. Ib. 2 הפ׳ ששחטו וכ׳ if they slaughtered a Passover lamb not as such. Ib. IX, 9 חבורה שאבדה פִסְחָהּ a party that lost its dedicated Passover lamb. Ib. 5, a. fr. פ׳ מצרים, פ׳ דורות, v. דּוֹר. Ib. 3, a. fr. פ׳ ראשון the first Passover, i.e. that celebrated on the fifteenth of Nisan; פ׳ שני the second (vicarious) Passover, on the eve of the fifteenth of Iyar (Num. IX, 10 sq.); a. v. fr.—Pl. פְּסָחִים. Ib. 10 שתי … שנתערבו פִּסְחֵיהֶן two parties whose Passover sacrifices were mixed up. Ib. X, 6 ונאכל שם … ומן הפ׳ וכ׳ that there we may partake of the offerings and the Passover sacrifices &c.; a. fr.—ערבי (ערב) פ׳, v. supra. Ib. 1; a. fr.—P’saḥim, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moëd, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Y’rushalmi.