Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2557
חָמֵץ
chametskhaw-mates'
leaven; leaven
11 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 H2557is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2557
ferment, (figuratively) extortion
The King James renders it: leaven, leavened (bread).
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 "leaven; leaven". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "leaven".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:15For 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.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
For 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.
Exodus 12:15חָמֵ֗ץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eleven uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: leaven, and leaven.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| leavenStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread… |
| leavenStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- leaven10
- from a 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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- חָמֵ֖ץ3
- חָמֵ֔ץ3
- חָמֵ֗ץ2
- חָמֵ֑ץ1
- חָמֵֽץ׃1
- מֵֽחָמֵץ֙1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular10HAamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
Exodus
five uses
For 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.
- חָמֵ֗ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
So 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.
- חָמֵֽץ׃chametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.
- חָמֵ֗ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
- חָמֵ֖ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Do 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.
- חָמֵ֖ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Leviticus
four uses
No 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.
- חָמֵ֑ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
It 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.
- חָמֵ֔ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
- חָמֵ֔ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Bring 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.
- חָמֵ֖ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Deuteronomy
one use
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- חָמֵ֔ץchametzadjective · masculine singulartagged: leaven
Amos
one use
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
- מֵֽחָמֵץ֙mechametzpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: from a thing leavened
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.