How did the holiday Passover get its name?

Answer 1

When the Pharaoh refused to let the Lords people leave Egypt he placed upon the Egyptians ten plagues. The last being that all of their firstborn would die. The Israelite people were told to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificed animal on their door frames and lintel. When G-d would come to smite the Egyptian firstborns, he would see the blood on the doorpost and skip over that house. That's why it is called passover. That is the same idea of the Hebrew name, Pesach, which means door.

Answer 2

The angels marked the door of the Israelites so that their first born sons would not be killed.All of the Egyptian first born were.That means they passed over the israelites.Which comes to the title as passover.

Answer 3

Passover got its name from when the angel of death passed over the Israelites houses while killing all the eldest children of thefamily. He passed over their houses because the had lambs blood painted on their door.

Answer 4

Pesach (or Pesah) is a Hebrew word meaning "to pass over" (hence the name in English). The name comes the story of the 10 plagues in the Exodus from Egypt. The 10th plague was when the angel of death smote the firstborn sons of the Egyptians, while "passing over" the houses of the ancient Israelites, sparing them.

Answer 5

Passover is referring to the last of the ten plagues that God inflicted upon the Egyptians for enslaving the Jews; the plague of the death of the first born. The Jews were told by God to mark their doorposts with the blood of a lamb so that the Angel of Death would know to pass over their homes and not slaughter the first born of the Jews.