Strong's H2556 · Hebrew

chamets

khaw-mates'

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

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

 H2556a חָמֵץ be sour , leavened . be leavened . be soured , embittered H2556b חמץ be red H2556c חמץ be ruthless  

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain