chamets · what is leavened

What it means

chamets (חָמֵץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “what is leavened”.

Bread or dough that has fermented.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Bread with yeast, forbidden at Passover.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• leavened ×5
• leavened bread ×5
• leaven ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Amos×1

• Exodus 12:15

  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed, on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

• Exodus 12:19

  For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a resident alien or a native of the land.

• Exodus 12:20

  You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”

• Exodus 13:3

  Moses said to the people, “Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slaves, for with a strong hand YHWH brought you out from here; and no leavened bread shall be eaten.

• Exodus 13:7

  Unleavened bread shall be eaten for the seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.

• Exodus 23:18

  You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my feast shall not remain until morning.

• Exodus 34:25

  You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover shall not remain overnight until the morning.

• Leviticus 2:11

  No grain offering that you present to YHWH shall be made leavened, for any leaven and any honey— you shall not offer up in smoke any of it as a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 6:17

  It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion from my fire offerings; it is a most holy thing, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering.

• Leviticus 7:13

  With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving.

• Leviticus 23:17

  From your dwellings you shall bring two loaves for a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as first fruits to YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 16:3

  You shall not eat bread with leaven with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, for in haste you came out of the land of Egypt, so that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

• Amos 4:5

  And offer up in smoke a thank offering of leavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, announce them; for so you love it, children of Israel, declares Adonai YHWH.