H2556: חָמֵץ
châmêts · pronounced khaw-mates' · “to leaven”
Definition
to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling)
KJV translates it as: cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to be leavened
1b) (Hiphil) to taste something leavened
1c) (Hithpael) to be embittered, grieved
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2556 is translated
- it was leavened ×2
- a thing leavened ×1
- thing leavened ×1
- the ruthless ×1
- it was embittered ×1
- red of ×1
- it ×1
Bible verses with H2556 (châmêts)
Châmêts appears in 8 verses.
- Exodus 12:19
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
- Exodus 12:20
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
- Exodus 12:34
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
- Exodus 12:39
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
- Psalms 71:4
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
- Psalms 73:21
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
- Isaiah 63:1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
- Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.