Luke 13:21
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
KJV
ὁμοία ἐστὶν ζύμῃ, ἣν λαβοῦσα γυνὴ ἔκρυψεν εἰς ἀλεύρου σάτα τρία, ἕως οὗ ἐζυμώθη ὅλον.
Greek NT
Simile est fermento, quod acceptum mulier abscondit in farinæ sata tria, donec fermentaretur totum.
Vulgate
It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
ASV
It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
ζυμόω
zumoo
verb · 4×
ζύμη
zume
noun · 13×
κρύπτω
krupto
verb · 19×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
σάτον
saton
noun · 2×
τρεῖς
treis
adjective · 67×
ἄλευρον
aleuron
noun · 2×
ἕως
eos
adverb · 145×
ὅλος
olos
adjective · 109×
ὅμοιος
omoios
adjective · 45×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἔκρυψεν | WH/Treg: ἔκρυψεν | NIV/RP: ἐνέκρυψεν
- ἔκρυψεν — SBLGNT
- ἔκρυψεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- ἐνέκρυψεν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
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Parable
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 5:6 — Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- 1Cor 5:6 — Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- 1Thess 5:23 — And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Gal 5:9 — A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
- Jas 1:21 — Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
- John 4:14 — But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
- Matt 13:33 — Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
- Matt 13:33 — Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
- Phil 1:6 — Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
- Phil 1:9 — And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;