# חָמֵץ (chamets)

Israeli respelling: cha-mets. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2556. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling)

King James renderings: cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chamets-h2556

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 12:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/34) — And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
- [Exodus 12:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/39) — And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out o…
- [Psalms 71:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/4) — Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
- [Psalms 73:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/21) — Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
- [Isaiah 63:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/1) — Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his…
- [Hosea 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/4) — They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.