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ζύμη

zymē · yeast

Greek word · Strong’s number G2219 · appears 13 times in the Bible

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What it means

zymē (ζύμη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “yeast”.

Fermented dough that makes bread rise; an image of what spreads from within.

How to say it

zy·mē

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. What makes bread dough rise, and what spreads like it.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

  • leaven ×12
  • yeast ×1

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

Where it appears

  • Matthew 13:33

    He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

  • Matthew 16:6

    And Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

  • Matthew 16:11

    How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

  • Matthew 16:12

    Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Mark 8:15

    And he was warning them, saying, “Watch out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

  • Luke 12:1

    Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

  • Luke 13:21

    It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened.”

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6

    Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

  • 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.

  • Galatians 5:9

    A little leaven leavens the whole batch.

And 2 more times.