Passover

Passover is translated as "sparing, passing by". It refers, on the one hand, to the Passover feast itself and, on the other, to the sacrifice, the Passover lamb (a foreshadowing of the Lord Jesus). When the Lord killed the firstborn in Egypt, he spared the houses of Israel and passed by when he found the blood of the Passover lamb painted on the doorposts and lintel. The Passover commemorates this passing by.