ἄλευρον
áleuron · G224 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
- Plain flourBread15 verses
Meanings
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wheat flour
A powder made by grinding the wheat berry; used in baking, esp. bread
ExamplesMatthew 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.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- σάτονsaton 2
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In the other Testament 1 word
- קֶמַח qemach · H7058 · flour, meal
- Hebrew קֶמַח and Greek ἄλευρον both denote ground grain (flour/meal) as a food ingredient, representing the standard translation equivalent across the LXX corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wheat flour5.9
- In Matthew 13:33, the kingdom of heaven is compared to “leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour (aléurou) until it was all leavened,” naming the ground wheat used for baking.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τό (ἀλεύω to grind), wheaten flour, meal: Mt 13:33; Lk 13:21. Hesychius ἄλευρα κυρίως τά…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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