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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 - For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20 - Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 - “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. “The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:11 - “ ‘Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in a food offering presented to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:17 - It must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share of the food offerings presented to me. Like the sin offering[fn] and the guilt offering, it is most holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:13 - Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17 - From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:5 - Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings— boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,”

declares the Sovereign LORD.

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