Word Summary
azymos: unleavened
Original Word: ἄζυμοςTransliteration: azymos
Phonetic Spelling: (ad'-zoo-mos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: unleavened
Meaning: unleavened
Strong's Concordance
unleavened bread.
From a (as a negative particle) and zume; unleavened, i.e. (figuratively) uncorrupted; (in the neutral plural) specially (by implication) the Passover week -- unleavened (bread).
see GREEK a
see GREEK zume
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 106: ἄζυμοςἄζυμος, (
ζύμη), Hebrew
מַצָּה,
unfermented, free from leaven; properly:
ἄρτοι Exodus 29:2;
Josephus, Antiquities 3, 6, 6; hence the neuter plural
τά ἄζυμα,
מַצּות, unleavened loaves;
ἡ ἑορτή τῶν ἀζύμων,
הַמַּצּות חַג, the (paschal) festival at which for seven days the Israelites were accustomed to eat unleavened bread in commemoration of their exit from Egypt (
Exodus 23:15;
Leviticus 23:6),
Luke 22:1;
ἡ πρώτη (namely,
ἡμέρα)
τῶν ἀζύμων.
Matthew 26:17;
Mark 14:12;
Luke 22:7;
αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἀζύμων.
Acts 12:3;
Acts 20:6; the paschal festival itself is called
τά ἄζυμα,
Mark 14:1 (cf. 1 Esdr. 1:10, 19;
Winers Grammar, 176 (166);
Buttmann, 23 (21)). Figuratively: Christians, if such as they ought to be, are called
ἄζυμοι i. e. devoid of the leaven of iniquity, free from faults,
1 Corinthians 5:7; and are admonished
ἑορτάζειν ἐν ἀζύμοις εἰλικρινείας, to keep festival with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,
1 Corinthians 5:8. (The word occurs twice in secular authors, viz.
Athen. 3, 74 (
ἄρτον)
ἄζυμον,
Plato, Tim., p. 74 d.
ἄζυμος σάρξ flesh not yet quite formed (add
Galen de alim. fac. 1, 2).)