# H2556 חָמֵץ

חָמֵץ (châmêts), Strong’s H2556: to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling) KJV: cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.. Occurs 6…

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

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

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָמֵץ vb. be sour, leavened
- Qal be leavened
- Hithp. be soured, embittered
- חמץ vb
- [חמץ] vb. be red
- חמץ vb
- [חמץ] vb. be ruthless—only Qal Pt. ψ 71:4

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 12:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=34) — The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their…
- [Exodus 12:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=39) — They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were…
- [Isaiah 63:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/63?v=1) — Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching…
- [Hosea 7:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/7?v=4) — They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough…
- [Psalms 71:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/71?v=4) — Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
- [Psalms 73:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/73?v=21) — For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.