Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2219

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: ζύμη

Transliteration: dzoo'-may

Definition: probably from ζέω; ferment (as if boiling up)

KJV Definition: leaven

Verse usage

  • Mateo 16:11 NASB
    "How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
  • Mateo 16:12 NASB
    Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  • Lukas 13:21 NASB
    "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened."
  • 1 Korintionan 5:6 NASB
    Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump [of dough]?
  • 1 Korintionan 5:7 NASB
    Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are [in fact] unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
  • 1 Korintionan 5:8 NASB
    Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
  • Galatanan 5:9 NASB
    A little leaven leavens the whole lump [of dough].