Limitless Word
חָמֵץchâmêts/khaw-mates'/
HebrewH25568 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.

Where it appears

  • Exod 12:19There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
  • Exod 12:20You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
  • Exod 12:34The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
  • Exod 12:39They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
  • Ps 71:4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
  • Ps 73:21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
  • Isa 63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
  • Hos 7:4They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.