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  paschal lamb

  noun

  a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Exodus 12:3–11.
• Paschal Lamb
  Paschal Lamb

  noun

  (sometimes not capitals) Old Testament the lamb killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover

paschal lamb

American  

noun

1. Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Exodus 12:3–11.

2. (initial capital letters) Christ.

3. (initial capital letters) any of several symbolic representations of Christ, as the Agnus Dei.

4. Also called Holy Lamb.  (initial capital letters) a representation of a lamb passant having around its head a nimbus and supporting on the dexter shoulder a crosslike staff bearing a flag argent charged with a cross gules.

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Paschal Lamb British  

noun

1. (sometimes not capitals) Old Testament the lamb killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover

2. Christ regarded as this sacrifice

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Etymology

Origin of paschal lamb

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English

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Soon there will be strawberries, asparagus, rhubarb, snow peas and watercress, the paschal lamb, the Easter ham.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017

Before the eating of the paschal lamb, Jesus rises from supper to wash the disciples' feet.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon

But “the plate” does not make the legal uncleanness of the body of the paschal lamb accepted.

From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius

By the first Christians it was considered to continue the feast of the passover, at which the paschal lamb, a type of Christ, was sacrificed.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

The paschal lamb is a type of Christ our Passover.

From Studies in Prophecy by Gaebelein, Arno C.

It was at a Seder that Jesus first offered the bread and wine as his body and blood, and in Christian liturgies he has become the archetypal Paschal Lamb.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Christ, the true Paschal Lamb, is an eternal divine Person, Who dies to establish the new testament; therefore the testament and the possessions therein bequeathed are eternal and abiding.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Luther, Martin

Before Him were the cakes of unleavened bread, the wine, the water and the herbs, while the Paschal Lamb was on a side table.

From Child's Story of the Bible by Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)

Jesus being Himself the Paschal Lamb was sacrificed on the day on which the Passover was eaten, and in this and the following chapters we have an account of the preceding evening.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

For centuries it was supposed to have been fashioned from a single emerald, and tradition has it as the very dish, the Holy Grail, which held the Paschal Lamb at the Last Supper.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe