KJV dictionary & concordance
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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First occurrence: Exodus 12:15
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¶ Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
¶ Then Iesus said vnto them, Take heed and beware of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the Sadduces.
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
How is it that ye doe not vnderstand, that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the Sadduces?
Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Then vnderstood they how that he bade them not beware of the leauen of bread: but of the doctrine of the Pharisees, and of the Sadduces.
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
And hee charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leauen of the Pharisees, and of the leauen of Herode.
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.
¶ 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.
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe?
1611 marginal noteGal. 5.9.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a new lumpe, as ye are vnleauened. For euen Christ our Passeouer is sacrificed for vs.
1611 marginal noteOr, is slain.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Therefore let vs keepe the Feast, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of malice and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of sinceritie and trueth.
1611 marginal noteOr, holiday.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
A little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe.
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