שְׂאֹר
sᵉʼôr · H7603 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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leaven, yeast
A substance added to dough to make it ferment and rise; not to be used during Passover and in grain offerings
ExamplesExodus 12:15 ‘For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:19 ‘For seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
Exodus 13:7 “Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing with yeast shall be seen among you, nor shall any dough with yeast be seen among you in all your borders.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- רָאָהto see 2
- מָצָאto find 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- קָטַרto burn incense, to burn (offerings) 1
- שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1
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
- ζύμη zýmē · G2219 · yeast, hypocrisy, pretense
- Greek ζύμη renders Hebrew שְׂאֹר as the standard translation equivalent for leaven/ferment across both Testaments, representing the same fermentation agent used in breadmaking and carrying identical symbolic weight in ritual and metaphorical contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spices001002005014
- Exodus 12:15/12:19 and Deuteronomy 16:4 each command removing "dough with yeast" or "leaven" from the house during the feast, directly attesting this word's sense of a fermenting agent added to bread.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7603. seor שְׂאֹר noun masculineExo 12:19 leaven; — absolute ׳שׂ Exo 13:7 (J), Deu 16:4…
שְׂאֹר noun masculineExo 12:19 leaven; — absolute ׳שׂ Exo 13:7 (J), Deu 16:4 (D), Exo 12:15, Exo 12:19; Lev 2:11 (all P).
שְׂאֵת see נשׂא. שָׂב see שׂיב.
שׂבךְ (√ of following; interweave; Late Hebrew סָבַךְ, derived species, שְׂבָכָה hair-net, etc.; Arabic insert, interewave; Syriac rush in, adhere, embrace, be mixed with, velum reticulatum; compare Assyrian šabikû, headdress, DlHWB 638).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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