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cha.mets H2557

חָמֵץ (cha.mets) means “leaven” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חָמֵץ Hebrew · H2557 11 tagged occurrences in 11 verses

Pronunciation guide: khaw-mates' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2557A

חָמֵץ · cha.mets · leaven

the thing leavened, leaven

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TBESH · H2557B

מַחְמֶ֫צֶת · mach.me.tset · leaven

the thing leavened, leaven

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H2556 (חָמֵץ); ferment, (figuratively) extortion

KJV glosses: leaven, leavened (bread).

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How translators render H2557

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
anything leavened 3
leavened 3
with leaven 3
leavened bread 2
of leavened 1
something leavened 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
with leaven 5
and there shall no leavened bread 1
leavened 1
leavened bread 1
no leavened bread 1
there shall no leavened bread 1
with leavened bread 1

Verses containing H2557

Page 1 of 1. 11 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Exodus 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Exodus 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. Exodus 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  4. Exodus 23:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

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  5. Exodus 34:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. Leviticus 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. Leviticus 6:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 6.10

  8. Leviticus 7:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

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  9. Leviticus 23:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  10. Deuteronomy 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  11. Amos 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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Sources and text

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