חָמֵץ

cha.metsleavenHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine13 occurrences4 books13 verses

Definition

from H2556; ferment, (figuratively) extortion
Traditional renderings: leaven, leavened (bread).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חָמֵץ:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

13 total
  1. Exodus 12:15חָמֵ֗ץ · anything leavened
    For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
  2. Exodus 12:19מַחְמֶ֗צֶת · something leavened
    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.
  3. Exodus 12:20מַחְמֶ֖צֶת · leavened
    You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
  4. Exodus 13:3חָמֵֽץ׃ · leavened
    So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
  5. Exodus 13:7חָמֵ֗ץ · leavened
    Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.
  6. Exodus 23:18חָמֵ֖ץ · anything leavened
    You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
  7. Exodus 34:25חָמֵ֖ץ · anything leavened
    Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
  8. Leviticus 2:11חָמֵ֑ץ · with leaven
    No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.
  9. Leviticus 6:17חָמֵ֔ץ · with leaven
    It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
  10. Leviticus 7:13חָמֵ֔ץ · of leavened
    Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
  11. Leviticus 23:17חָמֵ֖ץ · with leaven
    Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
  12. Deuteronomy 16:3חָמֵ֔ץ · leavened bread
    You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
  13. Amos 4:5מֵֽחָמֵץ֙ · leavened bread
    Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.