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Lexicon :: Strong's H2557 - ḥāmēṣ

Aa
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 BoxExo 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20 - Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 - Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:11 - No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:17 - It is not to be cooked with leaven. I have given it to them as their part of the offerings made by fire to me; it is most holy, as are the sin-offerings and the offerings for error.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:13 - With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17 - Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:5 - Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
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