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2.
, “to embrace, salute, take leave of” ( , “from,”
, “to
salute”), is used in Acts 21:6,
KJV
, “when we had taken our leave” (
RV
, “bade …
farewell”). Some mss. have the simple verb
.¶
LEAVEN (Noun and Verb)
A. Noun.
$
(
"
, 2219), “leaven, sour dough, in a high state of fermentation,” was used in
general in making bread. It required time to fulfill the process. Hence, when food was
required at short notice, unleavened cakes were used, e.g., Gen. 18:6; 19:3; Exod. 12:8.
The Israelites were forbidden to use “leaven” for seven days at the time of Passover, that
they might be reminded that the Lord brought them out of Egypt “in haste,” Deut. 16:3,
with Exod. 12:11; the unleavened bread, insipid in taste, reminding them, too, of their
afflictions, and of the need of self-judgment, is called “the bread of affliction.” “Leaven”
was forbidden in all offerings to the Lord by fire, Lev. 2:11; 6:17. Being bred of
corruption and spreading through the mass of that in which it is mixed, and therefore
symbolizing the pervasive character of evil, “leaven” was utterly inconsistent in offerings
which typified the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ.
In the OT “leaven” is not used in a metaphorical sense. In the NT it is used (a)
metaphorically (1) of corrupt doctrine, Matt. 13:33 and Luke 13:21, of error as mixed
with the truth (there is no valid reason for regarding the symbol here differently from its
application elsewhere in the NT); Matt. 16:6, 11; Mark 8:15 (1st part); Luke 12:1; that
the kingdom of heaven is likened to “leaven,” does not mean that the kingdom is
“leaven.” The same statement, as made in other parables, shows that it is the whole
parable which constitutes the similitude of the kingdom; the history of Christendom
confirms the fact that the pure meal of the doctrine of Christ has been adulterated with
error; (2) of corrupt practices, Mark 8:15 (2nd part), the reference to the Herodians being
especially applied to their irreligion; 1 Cor. 5:7, 8; (b) literally in Matt. 16:12, and in the
general statements in 1 Cor. 5:6 and Gal. 5:9, where the implied applications are to
corrupt practice and corrupt doctrine respectively.¶
B. Verb.
$
(
, 2220) signifies “to leaven, to act as leaven,” passive voice in Matt.
13:33 and Luke 13:21; active voice in 1 Cor. 5:6 and Gal. 5:9.¶
For
LED
see
LEAD
LEE
Note:
This forms part of the
RV
rendering of two verbs, (1)
$
, “to sail under”
(i.e., under the lee of), from
$
, “under,”
, “to sail,” Acts 27:4, 7 (
KJV
, “sailed
under”);¶ (2)
$
, “to run in under” (in navigation), “to run under the lee of”
(
$
, and a form
$
, used as an aorist participle of the verb), Acts 27:16,
RV
,
“running under the lee of” (
KJV
, “running under”). See
RUN
,
SAIL
.¶
For
LEFT
(Verb) see
LEAVE
LEFT (Adjective)
1.
(
$ $
, 710), is used (a) of the “left” hand, in Matt. 6:3, the word
“hand” being understood; in connection with the armor of righteousness, in 2 Cor. 6:7,