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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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Luke 12:1
IN the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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1611 witness · Luke 12:1 · retained source text

¶ In the meane time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one vpon another, he began to say vnto his disciples first of all, Beware yee of the leauen of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisie.

1611 marginal noteMat. 16.6.

Luke 13:21
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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1611 witness · Luke 13:21 · retained source text

It is like leauen, which a woman tooke and hidde in three measures of meale, till the whole was leauened.

1611 marginal noteSee Mat. 13.33.

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