ζύμης

Detailed Definition

• 1leaven
• 2metaphorically 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 matthew 13:33; or in a bad sense, of a pernicious influence, "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"