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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

Example Sentences

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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

"You know," said her grandmother, "that Jesus is often called the 'Lamb of God'; that paschal lamb was a type of Christ and is so spoken of in many Scriptures."

From Elsie in the South by Martha Finley

The centre of the solemnity was the slaying and eating of the paschal lamb.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker

It was quite as easy to prepare leavened bread as to provide the paschal lamb four days previously.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick

Her caprices were as the gambols of the paschal lamb, to be indulged and overlooked.

From The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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

I had found HIM of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write; I had found the very Paschal Lamb whose blood would be my safeguard from the destroying angel.

From Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain by Charlotte Elizabeth

Consequently, it seems that that sacrifice was a more significant figure of this sacrament than was the Paschal Lamb.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

This, the Paschal Lamb, the Christ, Whom God so freely gave us, On the cross is sacrificed In flames of love to save us.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

It was necessary accordingly that there should be at all times among men something to show forth our Lord's Passion; the chief sacrament of which in the old Law was the Paschal Lamb.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas