Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Vadim:

The word XMC comes form a root with the meaning of 
"soured", used as a verb not only for food, but 
also refers to a person's soured outlook in life.

For bread, it refers to the sourdough way of making 
bread. From the same root we have XMWC soured, XMYC 
fodder that has fermented while stored in a silo, 
XMC leavened (bread) also vinegar.

If I remember correctly, nothing with yeast was 
acceptable for temple worship. I'll have to double 
check, but I think that is the case.

The general word for "bread" is LXM from the root 
referring to feeding.

Karl W. Randolph.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "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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