Word Study · Strong's H2557 · Hebrew
חָמֵץ
chamets
khaw-mates'
Strong's 1890 spelling: châmêts
“ferment, (figuratively) extortion”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
ferment, (figuratively) extortion
Rendered in the KJV as
leaven, leavened (bread).
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 6inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 6
- חָמֵ֖ץ3
- חָמֵ֔ץ3
- חָמֵ֗ץ2
- חָמֵ֑ץ1
- חָמֵֽץ׃1
- מֵֽחָמֵץ֙1
How it is rendered · 2
- leaven10
- from a thing leavened1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- adjective · masculine singular10
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HAamsa · 10
- HR/Aamsa · 1
All 11, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Exodus5 occurrences
- Exodus 12:15חָמֵ֗ץchametzadjective · masculine singularFor seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.here: leaven
- Exodus 13:3חָמֵֽץ׃chametzadjective · masculine singularSo Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.here: leaven
- Exodus 13:7חָמֵ֗ץchametzadjective · masculine singularUnleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.here: leaven
- Exodus 23:18חָמֵ֖ץchametzadjective · masculine singularYou must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.here: leaven
- Exodus 34:25חָמֵ֖ץchametzadjective · masculine singularDo not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.here: leaven
Leviticus4 occurrences
- Leviticus 2:11חָמֵ֑ץchametzadjective · masculine singularNo grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.here: leaven
- Leviticus 6:17חָמֵ֔ץchametzadjective · masculine singularIt must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.here: leaven
- Leviticus 7:13חָמֵ֔ץchametzadjective · masculine singularAlong with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.here: leaven
- Leviticus 23:17חָמֵ֖ץchametzadjective · masculine singularBring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.here: leaven
Same headword in Strong's