חָמֵץchâmêts
חָמֵץ: be sour, leavened
Pronunciation: khaw-mates' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2556
Meanings
Qal: be leavened (Exodus 12:39; Exodus 12:34; Hosea 7:4)
Hithp.: be soured, embittered (Psalms 73:21)
חמץ: be red
Qal: red of garments, that thy foot may be red with blood (Isaiah 63:1; Psalms 68:24)
חמץ: be ruthless
Qal: active, from the hand of the unjust and ruthless (Psalms 71:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 12:19 During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
- Exodus 12:20 During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”
- Exodus 12:34 The Israelites took their bread dough before yeast was added. They wrapped their kneading boards in their cloaks and carried them on their shoulders.
- Exodus 12:39 For bread they baked flat cakes from the dough without yeast they had brought from Egypt. It was made without yeast because the people were driven out of Egypt in such a hurry that they had no time to prepare the bread or other food.
- Psalms 71:4 My God, rescue me from the power of the wicked, from the clutches of cruel oppressors.
- Psalms 73:21 Then I realized that my heart was bitter, and I was all torn up inside.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).