חָמֵץ
chamets · be leavened; be bitter
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2556 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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chamets (חָמֵץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be leavened; be bitter”.
Ferment, be leavened. In other passages, be bitter or cruel (Psalm 71:4), or be bright red (Isaiah 63:1).
How to say it
cha·mets
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
- Of dough, to rise with yeast; or to turn sour.
- Soaked in a deep red color.
- Who harms others without mercy.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- leavened ×3
- dyed red ×1
- grew sour ×1
- violent ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 12:34
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
- Exodus 12:39
They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread, for it was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.
- Psalms 71:4
My Elohim, bring me to safety from the hand of the wicked, from the palm of the unjust and the violent.
- Psalms 73:21
When my heart grew sour and in my kidneys I felt pangs,
- Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with garments dyed red from Bozrah, this one glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, great to save.”
- Hosea 7:4
All of them are adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.