Strong H2556H2556Aחָמֵץ
be sour
One of the 3 senses of Strong H2556
- Transliteration
- châmêts
- Pronunciation
- khaw-mates'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
STEP sense: to leaven
Exact lexical definition: be sour
Part of speech: verb
BDB context: חָמֵץ vb . be sour , leavened Qal be leavened Hithp . be soured , embittered
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
Strong H2556A appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- leaven4
- grieve1
- leavened1
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 73:21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
- 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.