Matthew 16:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Ὁρᾶτε καὶ προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρισαίων καὶ Σαδδουκαίων.

Transliteration

The de Iēsous eipen to them, Horate and prosechete from the zymēs of the Pharisaiōn and Saddoukaiōn.

Grammar Details

*de*: postpositive particle - but/and
*Iēsous*: nominative singular masculine - Jesus
*eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he said
*Horate*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - watch/see/beware
*prosechete*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - take heed/pay attention
*zymēs*: genitive singular feminine - leaven/yeast
*Pharisaiōn*: genitive plural masculine - of Pharisees
*Saddoukaiōn*: genitive plural masculine - of Sadducees

Word Meanings

*Horate*: watch/see/beware/look
*prosechete*: take heed/pay attention/beware
*zymēs*: leaven/yeast/fermentation

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Referenced Verses

Luke 12:1 : 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.
Mark 8:15 : 15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
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.
Gal 5:9 : 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
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.
Exod 12:15-19 : 15 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. 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 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.
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.
Matt 16:12 : 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.

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