חָמֵץ
châmêts · H2557 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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something leavened, food containing leaven
State in which food has become sour; due to the addition of sourdough or leaven during the production process
ExamplesExodus 12:15 ‘For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 13:3 And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you departed from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the LORD brought you out from this place. And nothing with yeast shall be eaten.
Exodus 13:7 “Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing with yeast shall be seen among you, nor shall any dough with yeast be seen among you in all your borders.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
- רָאָהto see 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 4
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֶחֶםbread, food 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ζύμη zýmē · G2219 · yeast, hypocrisy, pretense
- Greek ζύμη is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew חָמֵץ, both denoting the fermented substance (leaven/yeast) that causes dough to rise, with ζύμη carrying the etymological sense of fermentation as a bubbling/boiling process.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Taste002004001008
- The word denotes leaven or leavened bread, food that has undergone fermentation, prohibited during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2557. chamets חָמֵץ noun masculineExo 13:3 that which is leavened — ֯׳ח Exo 12:15 Exo…
חָמֵץ noun masculineExo 13:3 that which is leavened — ֯׳ח Exo 12:15 Exo 12:10t. — forbidden at Passover Exo 12:15 (P), Exo 13:3, Exo 13:7 (JE), Deu 16:3, in all sacrifices Exo 23:18; Exo 34:25 (both J E); compare Amo 4:5; Lev 2:11; Lev 6:10 (P; apposition); exceptions are ח ׳לֶחֶם of peace-offering Lev 7:13 (P), and the wave-loaves (׳ח appositive) Lev 23:17 (H). — see RSSem 208 OTJC 2, 345.
מַחְמֶ֫צֶת noun feminine anything leavened, only Exo 12:19-20, (P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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