Leaven
שְׂאֹרStrong’s H7603seor (se-or)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seor is the Hebrew word usually translated “leaven”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Leaven
How it's translated
- leaven 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:19Seven 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.
- Exodus 13:7Unleavened 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.
- Leviticus 2:11No 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.
- Deuteronomy 16:4And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂאֹר seor · leaven
leaven
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leaven” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEAVEN, noun
lev'n. [Latin levo, Eng. to lift.]
- A mass of sour dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough or paste, produces fermentation in it and renders it light. Exodus 12:15
- Any thing which makes a general change in the mass.“Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” Matthew 16:6
All definitions and other forms of “leaven”
LEAVEN, verb transitive
lev'n.
- To excite fermentation in; to raise and make light, as dough or paste.“A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” 1 Corinthians 5:6
- to taint; to imbue.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.