שְׂאֹר
seor · leaven
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7603 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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seor (שְׂאֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leaven”.
The fermented dough kept to make bread rise.
How to say it
se·or
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
- Sour dough that makes bread rise.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 12:15
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed, on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.
- Exodus 12:19
For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a resident alien or a native of the land.
- Exodus 13:7
Unleavened bread shall be eaten for the seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
- Leviticus 2:11
No grain offering that you present to YHWH shall be made leavened, for any leaven and any honey— you shall not offer up in smoke any of it as a fire offering to YHWH.
- Deuteronomy 16:4
And no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, and none of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain all night until morning.