חָמֵץ châmêts — to be pungent
Translated in the KJV as cruel, dyed, be grieved, leavened.
a primitive root; to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling).
châmêts in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1Participle (passive) 1Infinitive construct 1
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›