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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Luke 13:21

"It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gospel;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Kingdom of Heaven;   Leaven (Yeast);   Regeneration;   Scofield Reference Index - Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaven;   The Topic Concordance - Kingdom of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leaven;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Leaven;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Measure;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Matthew, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Immanence ;   Impotence;   Leaven;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Nature and Natural Phenomena;   Numbers (2);   Organization (2);   Science (2);   Weights and Measures;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Measures;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Weights and Measures;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Leaven;   Parable;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It’s like leaven
King James Version (1611)
It is like leauen, which a woman tooke and hidde in three measures of meale, till the whole was leauened.
King James Version
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
English Standard Version
It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."
New American Standard Bible
"It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened."
New Century Version
It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a large tub of flour until it made all the dough rise."
Amplified Bible
"It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three peck measures of flour until it was all leavened."
Legacy Standard Bible
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened."
Berean Standard Bible
It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."
Contemporary English Version
It is like what happens when a woman mixes yeast into three batches of flour. Finally, all the dough rises."
Complete Jewish Bible
It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with a bushel of flour, then waited until the whole batch of dough rose."
Darby Translation
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.
Easy-to-Read Version
It is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough rise."
Geneva Bible (1587)
It is like leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three peckes of floure, till all was leauened.
George Lamsa Translation
It is like the leaven which a woman took and buried in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.
Good News Translation
It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises."
Lexham English Bible
It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened."
Literal Translation
It is like leaven, which taking, a woman hid in three measures of meal until all was leavened.
American Standard Version
It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
Bible in Basic English
It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.
Hebrew Names Version
It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour, until it was all leavened."
International Standard Version
It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed withhid in
">[fn] three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."
Etheridge Translation
It is like leaven which a woman took; (and) hid in three satas of meal, until all had leavened.
Murdock Translation
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three seahs of meal, until the whole was fermented.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is lyke leuen, which a woman toke, and hyd in three peckes of meale, tyll all was leuened.
English Revised Version
It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
World English Bible
It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour, until it was all leavened."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
It is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Weymouth's New Testament
It is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, to work there till the whole is leavened."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
It is lijk to sourdouy, that a womman took, and hidde it `in to thre mesuris of mele, til al were sourid.
Update Bible Version
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.
Webster's Bible Translation
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
New English Translation
It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."
New King James Version
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures [fn] of meal till it was all leavened."
New Living Translation
It is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough."
New Life Bible
It is like yeast that a woman put into three pails of flour until it was all full of yeast."
New Revised Standard
It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
It is, like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until, the whole, was leavened.
Douay-Rheims Bible
It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Revised Standard Version
It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
it is lyke leve which a woman toke and hidde in thre busshels of floure tyll all was thorow levended.
Young's Literal Translation
It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is like vnto leuen, which a woman toke, and myxte it amoge thre peckes of meele, tyll it was all leuended.
Mace New Testament (1729)
it is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leaven'd.
Simplified Cowboy Version
It's like a little sourdough starter that works its way through the dough to make it better than before."

Contextual Overview

18 So He was saying, "What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? 19 "It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and THE BIRDS OF THE AIR NESTED IN ITS BRANCHES." 20 And again He said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened."22 And He was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching, and proceeding on His way to Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

like: Matthew 13:33, *marg.

till: Job 17:9, Psalms 92:13, Psalms 92:14, Proverbs 4:18, Hosea 6:3, John 4:14, John 15:2, 1 Corinthians 5:6, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 1:9-11, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, James 1:21

Reciprocal: Mark 4:30 - General Galatians 5:9 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It is like leaven,.... Which is small in quantity, but is of a swelling, spreading quality; and fitly expresses the small beginnings of the Gospel ministry, and its increase, also the state and case of Gospel churches, and the nature of the grace of God; unless false doctrine should rather be meant, which privately, secretly, and by little and little, got into the churches of Christ, the kingdom of God, and spread itself all over them, as in the times of the papacy:

which a woman took; Christ, and his ministers, Wisdom, and her maidens, understanding it of the Gospel; but if the leaven of error is intended, that woman, Jezebel, is meant, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches, and seduces the servants of God, Revelation 2:20

and hid in three measures of meal: among a few of God's people at first, both among Jews and Gentiles,

till the whole was leavened; until all the elect of God are gathered in, and evangelized by it; even the whole fulness of the Gentiles, and all the people of the Jews, which shall be saved in the latter day; but if the parable is to be understood of the false doctrine and discipline of the Antichristian and apostate church of Rome, it may denote the small beginnings of the mystery of iniquity, which began to work in the apostle's time by the errors and heresies then propagated, and the manner in which the man of sin was privately introduced; whose coming is after the working of Satan, with signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, first among a few, and then more, until at length the whole world wondered after the beast, 2 Thessalonians 2:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31-32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 13:21. Like leaven — See this explained, Matthew 13:33.


 
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