חָמֵץ
cha.mets
“to leaven”
Definition
to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling)
a primitive root;
- to be leavened, be sour 1a) (Qal) to be leavened 1b) (Hiphil) to taste something leavened 1c) (Hithpael) to be embittered, grieved
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
חָמֵץ appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
They are all adulterers,like an oven heated by a bakerwho needs not stoke the firefrom the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.