Hebrew verb · H2556
חָמֵץ
chametskhaw-mates'
to leaven; be red; to oppress
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châmêts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2556is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2556
to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling)
The King James renders it: cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chamets is rendered "to leaven; be red; to oppress". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "to leaven".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:19For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
Exodus 12:19מַחְמֶ֗צֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: to leaven, and be red, and to oppress.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to leavenStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 12:19For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened… |
| be redStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to oppressStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it was leavened2
- a thing leavened1
- and ruthless1
- is leavened it1
- it was embittered1
- red of1
- thing leavened1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְחוֹמֵץ׃1
- חֲמ֤וּץ1
- חָמֵ֑ץ1
- חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃1
- יֶחְמָ֑ץ1
- יִתְחַמֵּ֣ץ1
- מַחְמֶ֗צֶת1
- מַחְמֶ֖צֶת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singular2HVhrfsa
- adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAamsc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqcc/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVti3ms
Exodus
four uses
For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
- מַחְמֶ֗צֶתmachmetzetverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: a thing leavened
You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
- מַחְמֶ֖צֶתmachmetzetverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: thing leavened
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
- יֶחְמָ֑ץyechmatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was leavened
Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
- חָמֵ֑ץchametzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was leavened
Psalms
two uses
Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.
- וְחוֹמֵץ׃vechometzconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and ruthless
When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
- יִתְחַמֵּ֣ץyitchametzverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was embittered
Isaiah
one use
Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
- חֲמ֤וּץchamutzadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: red of
Hosea
one use
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
- חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃chumtzatoverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is leavened it
The letters
Gematria 138· 948 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.