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# שְׂאֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7603

**leaven** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

leaven [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7603/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂאֹר: n.m. leaven [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7603/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 12:19 leaven;—abs. שׂ׳ Ex 13:7 (J), Dt 16:4 (D), Ex 12:15, 19; Lv 2:11 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: leaven (5).

## In the verses

[Exodus 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.7/#tree)

מַצּוֹת֙ יֵֽאָכֵ֔ל אֵ֖ת שִׁבְעַ֣ת הַיָּמִ֑ים וְלֹֽא־יֵרָאֶ֨ה לְךָ֜ חָמֵ֗ץ וְלֹֽא־יֵרָאֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ שְׂאֹ֖ר בְּכָל־גְּבֻלֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* unleavened.bread(s) it.will.be.eaten (et) the.seven the days and not it.will.be.seen by you leaven and not it.will.be.seen by you leaven in all territory your

*JPS 1917:* Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.

[Leviticus 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.11/#tree)

כָּל־הַמִּנְחָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תַּקְרִ֙יבוּ֙ לַיהוָ֔ה לֹ֥א תֵעָשֶׂ֖ה חָמֵ֑ץ כִּ֤י כָל־שְׂאֹר֙ וְכָל־דְּבַ֔שׁ לֹֽא־תַקְטִ֧ירוּ מִמֶּ֛נּוּ אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* any (the).grain offering which you.will.present to Yahweh not it.will.be.made leaven (dm) any leaven and any honey not you.must.make.to.smoke any of.it a.fire.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* No meal-offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall make no leaven, nor any honey, smoke as an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7603.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7603/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).