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GreekG0106Adjective

ἄζυμος

azumos

9Occurrences
G0106Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

unleavened, i.e. (figuratively) uncorrupted; (in the neutral plural) specially (by implication) the Passover week

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G2219 (ζύμη);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
unleavened: ἡ ἑορτὴ τῶν ἄ. (הַג הַמָצָּה), the paschal feast (also called τὰ ἄ., ); ἡμέρα τῶν ἄ.,; ἡμέραι. Fig., of Christians, free from corruption: exhorted to keep festival, *ἐν ἀζύμοις *(sc. ἄρτοις, λάγανοις, or, indefinitely, "unleavened elements").
LXX: for מָצָּה; τὰ ἄ. (sc. λάγανα, cakes) = הַמָצָּה

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

G:A

Full Description

Greek Adjective

Occurrences

ἄζυμος appears 9 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Corinthians
2
Acts
2
Luke
2
Mark
2
Matthew
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 5:7BSB

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.

1 Corinthians 5:8BSB

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.

Acts 12:3BSB

And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Acts 20:6BSB

And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.

Luke 22:1BSB

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.