Luke 13:21:3Luke.13.21.W3TAB
ζύμῃ
dzumê
“leaven”
- Transliteration
- DZU-mê
- Extended
- dzooh-MÊ
- IPA
- /dzyˈmɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- leaven
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Alphabet Analysis
| Zeta | z — as in daze | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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The word
Word in context
- word
DZU-mê
- sentence
ho-MOI-a es-TIN DZU-mê hên la-BOU-sa gy-NÊ E-kry-psen eis a-LEU-rou SA-ta TRI-a HE-ōs hou e-dzy-MŌ-thê HO-lon
Exegesis
The clause opens with homoia estin {ὁμοία ἐστὶν | hómoiā estìn} ‘is like’, where the feminine nominative adjective homoia takes the dative of comparison zume {ζύμῃ | zýmē} ‘leaven’ and anticipates the implied subject “Kingdom of God” from the preceding verse.
Root and etymology
“leaven, ferment”
In context — Luke 13:21
It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.
About this coordinate
Luke 13:21:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Luke 13:21, so the Greek word ζύμῃ (dzumê) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Luke.13.21.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Luke.13.21.W3.S1) and character.