azymos · unleavened

What it means

azymos (ἄζυμος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “unleavened”.

Without yeast. The "unleavened bread" is the festival of Passover week.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Without yeast; the bread of the Passover feast.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Unleavened Bread ×8
• unleavened ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×2

• Matthew 26:17

  Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

• Mark 14:1

  Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread was after two days. And the high priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by deceit and kill him;

• Mark 14:12

  And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples say to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

• Luke 22:1

  Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was drawing near.

• Luke 22:7

  And the day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

• Acts 12:3

  And when he saw that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also (and these were the days of Unleavened Bread).

• Acts 20:6

  But we sailed away after the days of Unleavened Bread from Philippi, and came to them at Troas within five days, where we stayed seven days.

• 1 Corinthians 5:7

  Clean out the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For our Passover lamb also has been sacrificed: the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 5:8

  So let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.