H2557 - חָמֵץ (châmêts)

H2557 חָמֵץ (châmêts) khaw-mates'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

from 2556; ferment, (figuratively) extortion

KJV Usage: leaven, leavened (bread)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חָמֵץ (cha.mets) — leaven. the thing leavened, leaven

מַחְמֶ֫צֶת (mach.me.tset) — leaven. the thing leavened, leaven

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

חָמֵץ (H2557a)

noun c · חמץ

Taste

something leavened, food containing leaven = state in which food has become sour;= ◄ due to the addition of sourdough or leaven during the production process

EXO 12:15 · EXO 13:3 · EXO 13:7 · EXO 23:18 · EXO 34:25 · LEV 2:11 · LEV 6:10 · LEV 7:13 · LEV 23:17 · DEU 16:3 · AMO 4:5

Reinier de Blois

מַחְמֶצֶת (H2557b)

verb · חמץ

Taste

something leavened, food containing leaven = state in which food has become sour ◄ due to the addition of sourdough or leaven during the production process

EXO 12:19 · EXO 12:20

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חָמֵץ n.m. that which is leavened base

מַחְמֶ֫צֶת n.f. anything leavened, only Ex 12:19, 20 (P). done