Greek noun (feminine) · G2219
ζύμη
zymedzoo'-may
leaven
13 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zýmē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2219
ferment (as if boiling up)
The King James renders it: leaven.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zyme is rendered "leaven". It stands 13 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:33He 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.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
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 13:33ζύμῃ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's thirteen uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- leaven11
- to leaven2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ζύμης6
- ζύμῃ4
- ζύμη2
- ζύμην1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular6N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular4N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Matthew
four uses
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.”
- ζύμῃzumenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: to leaven
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
- ζύμηςzumesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
- ζύμηςzumesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
Then 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.
- ζύμηςzumesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
Mark
two uses
“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
- ζύμηςzumesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
- ζύμηςzumesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
Luke
two uses
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.
- ζύμηςzumesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- ζύμῃzumenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: to leaven
1 Corinthians
four uses
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- ζύμηzumenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
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.
- ζύμηνzumennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
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.
- ζύμῃzumenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
- ζύμῃzumenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
Galatians
one use
A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
- ζύμηzumenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: leaven
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.