GreekG2219Noun (Feminine)

ζύμη

zumē

11Occurrences
G2219Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

ferment (as if boiling up)

probably from G2204 (ζέω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
leaven: ἄρτου. Metaphorical, of a moral influence or tendency, always, exc. in the Parable of the Leaven, for evil: ζ. Φαρισαίων.
LXX: for חָמֵץ; שְׂאֹר, *

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

ζύμη appears 11 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Matthew
4
1 Corinthians
3
Luke
2
Galatians
1
Mark
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 5:6BSB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

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.

Luke 12:1BSB

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.

Matthew 13:33BSB

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.”

Matthew 16:11BSB

How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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