Mark 8:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And he charged them, saying, ‹Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and› [of] ‹the leaven of Herod.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ διεστέλλετο αὐτοῖς, λέγων, Ὁρᾶτε, βλέπετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρισαίων, καὶ τῆς ζύμης Ἡρώδου.

Transliteration

And he was diestelleto to them, legōn, Horate, blepete from the zymēs of the Pharisaiōn, and the zymēs of Hērōdou.

Grammar Details

• *diestelleto*: verb, imperfect middle indicative, 3rd person singular - he was charging/warning
• *legōn*: participle, present active nominative singular - saying
• *Horate*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural - see/take heed
• *blepete*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural - look/beware
• *zymēs*: noun, feminine genitive singular - of leaven
• *Pharisaiōn*: noun, masculine genitive plural - of Pharisees
• *Hērōdou*: proper noun, masculine genitive singular - of Herod

Word Meanings

• *diestelleto*: he was charging/warning/commanding
• *Horate*: see/take heed/beware
• *blepete*: look/beware/be careful
• *zymēs*: leaven/yeast/fermentation

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 ¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
• Mark 12:13 : 13 ¶ And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in [his] words.
• Matt 16:6 : 6 Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.›
• Matt 16:11-12 : 11 ‹How is it that ye do not understand that I spake› [it] ‹not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?› 12 Then understood they how that he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
• Lev 2:11 : 11 ¶ No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
• 1 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. 10 Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do [it].
• 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do [it]: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, [even] my God, [will be] with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
• Prov 19:27 : 27 ¶ Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.
• Matt 14:1 : 1 ¶ At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
• Luke 12:1-2 : 1 ¶ In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, ‹Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.› 2 ‹For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.›
• Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said unto them, ‹Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.›
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 ¶ I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and [before] Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
• 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 ¶ Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.
• Exod 12:18-20 : 18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
• Matt 22:15-18 : 15 ¶ Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in [his] talk. 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any [man]: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, ‹Why tempt ye me,› [ye] ‹hypocrites?›
• Num 27:19-23 : 19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. 20 And thou shalt put [some] of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask [counsel] for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, [both] he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation. 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: 23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.