ζύμη
zumē
“leaven”
Definition
ferment (as if boiling up)
probably from G2204 (ζέω);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
ζύμη appears 11 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
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.
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.
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.”
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.