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# חָמֵץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2556

**be sour** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be sour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2556/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָמֵץ: vb. be sour, leavened [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2556/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sour, leavened (NH id., Pi. Hiph. make sour, leaven; Arabic حَمُضَ be sour; Aramaic חֲמַע be sour, leavened, ܚܡܰܥ, be leavened)— Pf. חָמֵץ Ex 12:39; Impf. יֶחְמָ֑ץ Ex 12:34; Inf. sf. חֻמְצָתוֹ Ho 7:4;—be leavened, of dough (בָּצֵק), Ex 12:34, 39 (E), cf. Ho 7:4. be soured, embittered, ψ 73:21 (‖ כִּלְיוֹתַי אֶשְׁתּוֹנָן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was leavened (2); it (1); it was embittered (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.21/#tree)

כִּ֭י יִתְחַמֵּ֣ץ לְבָבִ֑י וְ֝כִלְיוֹתַ֗י אֶשְׁתּוֹנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.was.embittered heart my and kidneys my I.was.pierced

*JPS 1917:* For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins.

[Hosea 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/#tree)

כֻּלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים כְּמ֣וֹ תַנּ֔וּר בֹּעֵ֖רָה מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת מֵעִ֔יר מִלּ֥וּשׁ בָּצֵ֖ק עַד־חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* of.them all \[are\].adulterers like an.oven \[which\].burns from a.baker \[who\].he.ceases stirring.up from kneading \[the\].dough until it is.leavened

*JPS 1917:* They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2556.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2556/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).