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Lexicon :: Strong's H2557 - ḥāmēṣ

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חָמֵץ
Transliteration
ḥāmēṣ
Pronunciation
khaw-mates'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 679a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: חמץ.

Strong’s Definitions

חָמֵץ châmêts, khaw-mates'; from H2556; ferment, (figuratively) extortion:—leaven, leavened (bread).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H2557 in the following manner: leaven (5x), leavened bread (4x), leaven (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H2557 in the following manner: leaven (5x), leavened bread (4x), leaven (2x).

  1. the thing leavened, leaven

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָמֵץ châmêts, khaw-mates'; from H2556; ferment, (figuratively) extortion:—leaven, leavened (bread).
STRONGS H2557: Abbreviations
† חָמֵץ noun masculineExodus 13:3 that which is leavened — ֯ ח׳ Exodus 12:15 + 10 times — forbidden at Passover Exodus 12:15 (P), Exodus 13:3, 7 (JE), Deuteronomy 16:3, in all sacrifices Exodus 23:18; Exodus 34:25 (both J E); compare Amos 4:5; Leviticus 2:11; Leviticus 6:10 (P; apposition); exceptions are לֶחֶם ח׳ of peace-offering Leviticus 7:13 (P), and the wave-loaves (ח׳ appositive) Leviticus 23:17 (H). — see RSSem 208 OTJC 2, 345.

מַחְמֶ֫צֶת noun feminine anything leavened, only Exodus 12:19, 20 (P).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:15; 12:15; 12:19; 12:20; 13:3; 13:3; 13:7; 23:18; 34:25

Leviticus

2:11; 6:10; 7:13; 23:17

Deuteronomy

16:3

Amos

4:5

H2557

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2557 matches the Hebrew חָמֵץ (ḥāmēṣ),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - ‘[In the celebration of the Passover in future years,] seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the [fn]leaven from your houses [because it represents the spread of sin]; for whoever eats leavened bread on the first day through the seventh day, that person shall be cut off and excluded from [the atonement made for] Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - ‘Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off and excluded from [the atonement made for] the congregation of Israel, whether a stranger or native-born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20 - ‘You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 -

Moses said to the people, “Remember [solemnly observe and commemorate] this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage and slavery; for by a strong and powerful hand the LORD brought you out of this place. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - “Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, nor shall there be leaven within the borders of your territory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 -

“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with [fn]leavened bread; and the fat of My feast is not to be left overnight until morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 -

“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover (Unleavened Bread) be left over until morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:11 -

‘No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven [which symbolizes the spread of sin] or any honey [which, like leaven, is subject to fermentation] in any offering by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:17 - ‘It shall not be baked with leaven [which represents corruption or sin]. I have given it as their share of My offerings by fire; it is [fn]most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:13 - ‘With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17 - ‘You shall bring in from your places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven as first fruits to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - “You shall not eat [fn]leavened bread with it; instead, for seven days you shall eat the Passover with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you left the land of Egypt in haste); [do this] so that all the days of your life you may remember [thoughtfully] the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:5 -

“[fn]Offer [by burning] a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,

And [boastfully] proclaim freewill offerings, announce them.

For this you so love to do, O children of Israel!”

Says the Lord GOD.

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