Word

ζυμόω

zymóō · G2220 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to use yeast

(Derivative of ζύμη ‘yeast,’) To employ yeast in the process of making bread rise

Examples
Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened.”
Luke 13:21 “It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata 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 of dough?

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

ζύμηleaven, yeast 2
ὅλοςwhole, all 2

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

φύραμαlump, dough 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἴδωto know 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἕωςuntil, to, as far as 4

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

חָמֵץ châmêts · H2556 · to be leavened, to be discontent, to be embittered: The primary Hebrew verb for the fermentation process, particularly in the context of leavened bread. Direct translation equivalent used in contexts discussing leavening and unleavened bread in the Torah.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To use yeast5.12: In 1 Corinthians 5:6, Paul's proverb continues, “a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough,” using this verb for the process of causing dough to rise with yeast.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ζύμη zýmē · G2219 · yeast, hypocrisy, pretense · 13×ἄζυμος ázymos · G106 · without yeast, not having yeast, unleavened · 9×ζυμόωzymóō · G2220

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ζύμω; 1 aorist passive ἐζυμωθην; (ζύμη); to leaven (to mix leaven with dough so as to…

ζύμω; 1 aorist passive ἐζυμωθην; (ζύμη); to leaven (to mix leaven with dough so as to make it ferment): 1 Cor 5:6; Gal 5:9 (on which passage see ζύμη); ἕως ἐζυμώθη ὅλον, namely, τό ἄλευρον, words which refer to the saving power of the gospel, which from a small beginning will gradually pervade and transform the whole human race: Mt 13:33; Lk 13:21. (the Sept., Hipp., Athen., Plutarch.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Food4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0