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Leaven and Ferment

Leaven and Ferment The organic chemists define the process of fermentation, and the substance which excites it, as follows:’Fermentation is nothing else but the putrefaction of a substance containing no nitrogen. Ferment, or yeast, is a substance in a state of putrefaction, the atoms of which are in a continual motion.’ This definition is in … Continue reading “Leaven and Ferment”

Leaven

LEAVEN Sourdough which is kept over from one baking to another, in order to raise the new dough. Leaven was forbidden in the Hebrews during the seven days of the Passover, in memory of what their ancestors did when they went out of Egypt, they being then obliged to carry unleavened meal with them, and … Continue reading “Leaven”

Leave, Left

Leave, Left * (a) In the sense of leaving, abandoning, forsaking. apo, “from,” and hiemi, “to send,” has three chief meanings, (a) “to send forth, let go, forgive;” (b) “to let, suffer, permit;” (c) “to leave, leave alone, forsake, neglect.” It is translated by the verb “to leave” (c), in Mat 4:11; Mat 4:20, Mat … Continue reading “Leave, Left”

Leathern

Leathern denotes “of skin leather” (from derma, “skin, hide of beasts,” akin to dero, “to flay;” whence Eng., “derm,” “dermal,” “dermatology”); it is translated “leather” in Mat 3:4, of John the Baptist’s girdle; in Mar 1:6, RV (AV, “of a skin”). See SKIN. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Leather

Leather In the Hebrew we find two distinct words, both translated leaven in the common version of the Bible. This is unfortunate, for there is the same distinction between , seosr’, and , chamets’, in the Hebrew, as between leaven and leavensed bread in the English. The Greek , appears to be used only in … Continue reading “Leather”

Least

Least “least,” is a superlative degree formed from the word elachus, “little,” the place of which was taken by mikros (the comparative degree being elasson, “less”); it is used of (a) size, Jam 3:4; (b) amount; of the management of affairs, Luk 16:10 (twice); Luk 19:17, “very little;” (c) importance, 1Co 6:2, “smallest (matters);” (d) … Continue reading “Least”

Leasing

LEASING Falsehood, Psa 4:2 ; 5:6. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Leasing (, kazab’, Psa 4:2; v. 6), an old English word equivalent to lying or lies, as the term is elsewhere rendered. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Leasing (Ps. 4:2; 5:6) an Old English word meaning lies, or lying, as … Continue reading “Leasing”