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leaven

Meaning of “leaven”

Sense 1: Fermented dough used to make other dough rise; figuratively, a spreading influence. Sense 2: To make rise or ferment by leaven; to work through and affect the whole mass.

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23 occurrences20 verses8 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 12:15

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Exodus 12:15
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 12:15 · retained source text

Seuen dayes shall ye eate vnleauened bread, euen the first day yee shall put away leauen out of your houses: For whosoeuer eateth leauened bread, from the first day vntil the seuenth day, that soule shall be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:19
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 12:19 · retained source text

Seuen dayes shall there bee no leauen found in your houses: for whosoeuer eateth that which is leauened, euen that soule shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or borne in the land.

Exodus 13:7
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 13:7 · retained source text

Unleauened bread shall be eaten seuen dayes: and there shall no leauened bread bee seene with thee: neither shall there be leauen seene with thee in all thy quarters.

Exodus 34:25
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 34:25 · retained source text

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauen, neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of Passeouer be left vnto the morning.

1611 marginal noteChap. 23.18.

Leviticus 2:11
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 2:11 · retained source text

No meat offering, which ye shall bring vnto the LORD, shall be made with leauen: For ye shall burne no leauen, nor any hony, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 6:17
It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 6:17 · retained source text

It shall not be baken with leauen: I haue giuen it vnto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire: it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespasse offering.

Leviticus 10:12
¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 10:12 · retained source text

¶ And Moses spake vnto Aaron, and vnto Eleazar and vnto Ithamar his sonnes that were left, Take the meate offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eate it without leauen, beside the altar: for it is most holy.

Leviticus 23:17
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 23:17 · retained source text

Ye shall bring out of your habitations two waue-loaues, of two tenth deales: they shalbe of fine flowre, they shall be baken with leauen, they are the first fruits vnto the LORD.

Amos 4:5
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Amos 4:5 · retained source text

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiuing with leauen, and proclaime and publish the free offrings; for this liketh you, O yee children of Israel, saith the LORD God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. offer by burning.

1611 marginal noteHeb. so yee loue.

Matthew 13:33
¶ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Matthew 13:33 · retained source text

¶ Another parable spake he vnto them, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three measures of meale, till the whole was leauened.

1611 marginal noteThe worde in the Greek is a measure conteining about a peck and an halfe, wanting litle more then a pinte.

1611 marginal noteLuke 13.20.

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