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ζύμη

zumēleavenHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentNoun · feminine13 occurrences5 books11 verses

Definition

ζύμη, -ης, ἡ

[in LXX for חָמֵץ, Exodus 12:16; 13:3; 23:18; 34:25, Deuteronomy 16:3; שְׂאֹר, Exodus 12:16, 19; 13:7, Leviticus 2:11, Deuteronomy 16:4 * ;]

leaven: Matthew 13:33, Luke 13:21; τ. ἄρτου, Matthew 16:12. Metaphorical, of a moral influence or tendency, always, exc. in the Parable of the Leaven (Matthew 13:33, Luke 13:21), for evil: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, Galatians 5:9; ζ. τ. Φαρισαίων, Matthew 16:6, 11, Mark 8:16, Luke 12:1 (Cremer, 723).

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ζύμη:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

13 total
  1. Matthew 13:33ζύμῃ · leaven
    He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
  2. Matthew 16:6ζύμης · leaven
    “Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
  3. Matthew 16:11ζύμης · leaven
    How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
  4. Matthew 16:12ζύμης · leaven
    Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  5. Mark 8:15ζύμης · leaven; ζύμης
    “Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
  6. Luke 12:1ζύμης · leaven
    In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
  7. Luke 13:21ζύμῃ · leaven
    It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
  8. 1 Corinthians 5:6ζύμη · leaven
    Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
  9. 1 Corinthians 5:7ζύμην · leaven
    Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
  10. 1 Corinthians 5:8ζύμῃ · bread, leavened; ζύμῃ
    Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
  11. Galatians 5:9ζύμη · leaven
    A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.