cha.mets denotes leaven as something removed or excluded in some offerings and used in certain baked offerings.

The noun names leaven in food and offering contexts: it is removed, not eaten, not seen, or excluded from specified sacrifices, while other instructions explicitly require baked offerings with it. The supplied forms are all common masculine singular absolute nouns.

1. Leaven in food and offering instructions · dominant

   The noun occurs in instructions that exclude it: in Exodus 12:15 the APB renders commands to remove it from houses and warns about eating leavened bread, while Exodus 23:18 and Exodus 34:25 place it in prohibitions concerning sacrificial blood. The same noun also occurs where baked offerings include it: in Leviticus 23:17 the APB renders the two flour portions as baked with leaven, and Leviticus 7:13 places food with leaven alongside a thanksgiving peace offering.

   Exodus 12:15Deuteronomy 16:3Exodus 23:18Exodus 34:25Leviticus 23:17Leviticus 7:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB uses “leaven” in removal, eating, visibility, sacrifice, and baking clauses, and also uses “leavened” for related English phrasing. Its wording cannot by itself identify the noun's precise contribution in every verse, especially Leviticus 6:10.