Strong's Number 2219
Transliteration:
zume
{dzoo'-may}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
2:902,302
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
leaven 13
Total: 13
Definition:
- leaven
- 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 Mat. 13:33; or in a bad sense, of a pernicious influence, "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"