Strong's #2219: zume (pronounced dzoo'-may)

probably from 2204; ferment (as if boiling up):--leaven.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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zumē

1) leaven

2) metaphorically of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to infect others

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: probably from G2204

Citing in TDNT: 2:902, 302

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Matthew 13:33: "of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and"
Matthew 16:6: "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."
Matthew 16:11: "that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?"
Matthew 16:12: "beware of the leaven of bread, but of the"
Mark 8:15: "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the"
Mark 8:15: "Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."
Luke 12:1: "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which"
Luke 13:21: "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in"
1 Corinthians 5:6: "ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?"
1 Corinthians 5:7: "therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,"
1 Corinthians 5:8: "not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice"
1 Corinthians 5:8: "leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but"
Galatians 5:9: "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump."