Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

In Ex12:15, hametz is generally understood as leavened bread. Numb6:3, 
however, declares wine hometz.
Positive commandment of eatring the unleavened bread in Ex12:15 favor the 
restricted meaning of hametz as leavened bread. Ex15:11 requires haste, and 
implies absence of wine, thus suggesting expanded meaning of hametz.

What are the grammatical arguments of reading hametz as "leavened bread," 
rather than "leavened thing," including wine?

Another question, is there any etymological reason to read mazot as "bread"? 
The reasoning "pressed, compressed, stiffled" bread seems very forced. 
Wouldn't it make more sense to read mazot as "whatever could be found"? That 
reading is logical - eat every thing you can find after you remove the 
leavened things - and corresponds to the root cell meaning of mz and to the 
sense of mzh as "stiffled," here - stiffled circumstances.

Vadim Cherny
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To provide a challenge to students of biblical Hebrew, an RSS feed has
been added to the Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex site.  This
feed provides 3 random verses each day.  The verses are taken from the
Tanach, the Torah, and the book of Psalms.  The RSS feed is available at:

http://www.cvkimball.com/Tanach/RSS/RSS.html

or by clicking the RSS icon near the lower left corner of the home
page.  The RSS page also outlines what  RSS feeds are for those not yet
using them.

This feed is provided on a trial basis, has many flaws, and may be
discontinued at any time.  Your insights would be appreciated.