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Headword:
*zu/mh
Adler number: zeta,197
Translated headword: leaven
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dough.[1] Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'leavened bread' [zumh/ths a)/rtos].[2]
"The story has it that from the 6th hour for 14 days of the month when the trumpet sounded, all leavened bread, if the Hebrews had any left, was destroyed by burning in the fire."[3]
Greek Original:*zu/mh: to\ fu/rama. kai\ *zumh/ths a)/rtos. o(/ti lo/gos e)/xei, w(s a)po\ #2# w(/ras ta\s id# tou= mhno\s h(me/ras sa/lpiggos fwnou/shs pa=s a)/rtos zumwto/s, ei)/ tis toi=s *(ebrai/ois u(pelei/peto, puri\ kaio/menos h)fani/zeto.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius; and cf.
phi 849.
[2] cf.
Xenophon,
Anabasis 7.3.21, in the plural, spelled with iota:
a)/rtoi zumi=tai (web address 1).
[3] cf.
Exodus 12.17-20, with 'on the 14th [to the 21st] day'. Here the word for "leavened" is
zumwto/s with an omega.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 May 2005@00:31:59.
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