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Nave Topical Bible
• Leaven (Yeast)
Scofield Reference Index
• Leaven
Thompson Chain Reference
• Leaven
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Leaven
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Leaven
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Leaven
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Leaven
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Leaven (2)
• Leaven
King James Dictionary
• Leavened
• Leaven
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Leaven
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Leaven
People's Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Leaven
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Leaven
Whyte's Bible Characters
• The Woman Who Took Leaven and Hid It in Three Measures of Meal
Wilson's Bible Types
• Leaven
Webster Dictionary
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• Leavening
• Leavened
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Leaven
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Leaven
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Leaven
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Leaven and Ferment
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Leaven
Lexicons
• ܚܡܺܝܪܳܐ
• ܚܡܰܥ
• ζύμη
• ζυμόω
• חָמוּץ חָמֵץ, חָמֵץ, , חָמֵץ
• חָמֵץ , מַחְמֶצֶת
• מַחְמָל
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(1):

(n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

(2):

(v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

(3):

(v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

(4):

(n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.