Strong's #2556: chamets (pronounced khaw-mates')

a primitive root; to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling):--cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châmêts

1) to be leavened, be sour

1a) (Qal) to be leavened

1b) (Hiphil) to taste something leavened

1c) (Hithpael) to be embittered, grieved

2) to be cruel, oppress, be ruthless

3) to be red

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 679, 680, 681

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Exodus 12:34: "their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon"
Exodus 12:39: "they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; it was not leavened; because they were thrust out"
Psalms 71:4: "out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand and cruel"
Psalms 73:21: "Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins."
Isaiah 63:1: "is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed from Bozrah?"
Hosea 7:4: "from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened."