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2219 ζύμη zume [dzoo’-may] probably from 2204; n f; TDNT-2:902,302; [{See TDNT 288 }] AV-leaven 13; 13
- 1) leaven
- 2) metaph. of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to infect others
- Leaven is applied to that which, though small in quantity, yet by its influence thoroughly pervades a thing; either in a good sense as in the parable #Mt 13:33; or in a bad sense, of a pernicious influence, "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"