Word Study · Strong's G2219 · Greek
ζύμη
zyme
dzoo'-may
Strong's 1890 spelling: zýmē
“ferment (as if boiling up)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
ferment (as if boiling up)
Rendered in the KJV as
leaven.
- 13occurrencesin the New Testament
- 5 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 13 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- ζύμης6
- ζύμῃ3
- ζύμη2
- ζύμῃ,1
- ζύμην,1
How it is rendered · 4
- leaven10
- leaven,1
- to leaven1
- to leaven,1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular6
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular4
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- N-GSF · 6
- N-DSF · 4
- N-NSF · 2
- N-ASF · 1
All 13, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Matthew4 of 13 · 31%
- 1 Corinthians4 of 13 · 31%
- Mark2 of 13 · 15%
- Luke2 of 13 · 15%
- Galatians1 of 13 · 8%
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Matthew4 occurrences
- Matthew 13:33ζύμῃ,zumēnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularHe 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.”here: to leaven,
- Matthew 16:6ζύμηςzumēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”here: leaven
- Matthew 16:11ζύμηςzumēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularHow do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”here: leaven
- Matthew 16:12ζύμηςzumēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularThen 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.here: leaven
Mark2 occurrences
- Mark 8:15ζύμηςzumēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”here: leaven
- Mark 8:15ζύμηςzumēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”here: leaven
Luke2 occurrences
- Luke 12:1ζύμηςzumēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularIn 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.here: leaven
- Luke 13:21ζύμῃzumēnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularIt is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”here: to leaven
1 Corinthians4 occurrences
- 1 Corinthians 5:6ζύμηzumēnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singularYour boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?here: leaven
- 1 Corinthians 5:7ζύμην,zumēnnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singularGet 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.here: leaven,
- 1 Corinthians 5:8ζύμῃzumēnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularTherefore 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.here: leaven
- 1 Corinthians 5:8ζύμῃzumēnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularTherefore 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.here: leaven