Strong’s
H2556aVerb6 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Exodus 12:19מַחְמֶצֶת
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.
- Psalm 73:21יִתְחַמֵּץ
When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
- Hosea 7:4חֻמְצָתוֹ
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
חָמֵץ vb. be sour, leavened
Qal be leavened
Hithp. be soured, embittered
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.