Strong H25563 sensesחָמֵץ
be sour · be red · to oppress
- Transliteration
- châmêts
- Pronunciation
- khaw-mates'
The 3 senses of Strong H2556
The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2556 appears in 8 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
A primitive root; to be pungent; that {is} in taste ({sour } that {is} literally {fermented} or figuratively {harsh }) in color (dazzling): - cruel ({man}) {dyed} be {grieved} leavened.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- leaven4
- dye1
- grieve1
- leavened1
- man1
First verses
- Exodus 12:19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
- Exodus 12:20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
- Exodus 12:34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
- Exodus 12:39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
- Psalms 71:4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
- Psalms 73:21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
- Isaiah 63:1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
- Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.