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Definition of Passover supper

1. Noun. (Judaism) the ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Passover Supper

Literary usage of Passover supper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If we study the texts relative to the Supper, the last solemn meal taken by Our Lord with His disciples, we shall find that it was the passover supper, ..."

2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1854)
"... prepare for the coming passover; but they do not necessarily imply that the supper, at which they that same evening reclined, was that passover supper. ..."

3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1898)
"At all ordinary meals the blessing came before the breaking of the bread, but in the passover supper after. And yet, even in the accounts which represent ..."

4. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"... to Calvary and done. all the other things requisite for the burial—when they ought to have been at their homes ready to preside at the passover supper. ..."

5. Historic notes on the books of the Old and New Testaments by Samuel Sharpe (1858)
"Matthew, Mark and Luke say that the last supper of our Lord with his disciples was the passover supper, and that the crucifixion took place after the ..."

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