Leaven
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 72 verses (KJV)
Description
Leaven made bread rise, but its quiet, invisible spread through dough became the Bible’s go-to picture for how a little influence — good or bad — works through a whole community. Israel purged it from every house before Passover as a yearly reset.
Key verses
“Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.”
Exodus 12:15
“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
1 Corinthians 5:6
Symbolism
Corruption spreading unseen — ‘know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?’ (1 Corinthians 5:6).
All 72 referencesshow
- 1 Chronicles 23:29
- 1 Corinthians 5:6
- 1 Corinthians 5:7
- 1 Corinthians 5:8
- 1 Samuel 28:24
- 2 Chronicles 8:13
- 2 Chronicles 30:13
- 2 Chronicles 30:21
- 2 Chronicles 35:17
- 2 Kings 23:9
- Acts 12:3
- Acts 20:6
- Amos 4:5
- Deuteronomy 16:3
- Deuteronomy 16:4
- Deuteronomy 16:8
- Deuteronomy 16:16
- Exodus 12:8
- Exodus 12:15
- Exodus 12:17
- Exodus 12:18
- Exodus 12:19
- Exodus 12:20
- Exodus 12:34
- Exodus 12:39
- Exodus 13:3
- Exodus 13:6
- Exodus 13:7
- Exodus 23:15
- Exodus 23:18
- Exodus 29:2
- Exodus 29:23
- Exodus 34:18
- Exodus 34:25
- Ezekiel 45:21
- Ezra 6:22
- Galatians 5:9
- Genesis 19:3
- Hosea 7:4
- Joshua 5:11
- Judges 6:19
- Judges 6:20
- Judges 6:21
- Leviticus 2:4
- Leviticus 2:5
- Leviticus 2:11
- Leviticus 6:16
- Leviticus 6:17
- Leviticus 7:12
- Leviticus 7:13
- Leviticus 8:2
- Leviticus 8:26
- Leviticus 10:12
- Leviticus 23:6
- Leviticus 23:17
- Luke 12:1
- Luke 13:21
- Luke 22:1
- Luke 22:7
- Mark 8:15
- Mark 14:1
- Mark 14:12
- Matthew 13:33
- Matthew 16:6
- Matthew 16:11
- Matthew 16:12
- Matthew 26:17
- Numbers 6:15
- Numbers 6:17
- Numbers 6:19
- Numbers 9:11
- Numbers 28:17