HebrewH2557Noun (Masculine)

חָמֵץ

cha.mets

10Occurrences
H2557Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

ferment, (figuratively) extortion

from H2556 (חָמֵץ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
the thing leavened, leaven

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

חָמֵץ appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
5
Leviticus
3
Amos
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

Amos 4:5BSB

Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings.For that is what you children of Israel love to do,”declares the Lord GOD.

Exodus 12:15BSB

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 13:7BSB

Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.

Exodus 34:25BSB

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

Leviticus 23:17BSB

Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.

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