{"def":{"short":"ferment (as if boiling up)","long":["leaven","metaphorically of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to infect others Leaven is applied to that which, though small in quantity, yet by its influence thoroughly pervades a thing; either in a good sense as in the parable Matthew 13:33; or in a bad sense, of a pernicious influence, \"a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump\""]},"deriv":"probably from G2204","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈzy.me","ipa_mod":"ˈzju.me̞","sbl":"zymē","dic":"ZOO-may","dic_mod":"ZYOO-may"},"see":["G2204"]}