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ζύμη

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ζύμη, -ης, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
zymē
Simplified transliteration: 
zyme
Numbers
Strong's number: 
2219
GK Number: 
2434
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
13
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-1b
Gloss: 
yeast, leaven
Definition: 
leaven, yeast, Mt. 16:12; 13:33; met. leaven of the mind and conduct, by a system of doctrine or morals, used in a bad sense, Mt. 16:6, 11; 1 Cor. 5:6

Greek-English Concordance for ζύμη

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven (zymē | ζύμῃ | dat sg fem), which a woman took and put into three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
Matthew 16:6 Jesus said to them, “Watch out, and beware of the leaven (zymēs | ζύμης | gen sg fem) of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:11 How is it that you do not understand that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the leaven (zymēs | ζύμης | gen sg fem) of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the leaven (zymēs | ζύμης | gen sg fem) of bread but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 8:15 And Jesus began to admonish them, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven (zymēs | ζύμης | gen sg fem) of the Pharisees and the leaven (zymēs | ζύμης | gen sg fem) of Herod!”
Luke 12:1 In the meantime, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling one another, Jesus began to say (to his disciples first), “Beware of the yeast (zymēs | ζύμης | gen sg fem) of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 13:21 It is like leaven (zymē | ζύμῃ | dat sg fem) that 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 (zymē | ζύμη | nom sg fem) leavens the whole batch of dough?
1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven (zymēn | ζύμην | acc sg fem) so that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 5:8 So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven (zymē | ζύμῃ | dat sg fem), the leaven (zymē | ζύμῃ | dat sg fem) of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven (zymē | ζύμη | nom sg fem) leavens the whole lump of dough!