Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionIt is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until the whole batch was leavened."
F.O.G.M
F.O.G Message"It is like yeast that a woman worked through three great measures of flour until the whole batch had risen."
BSB
Berean Standard BibleIt is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Footnotes
The Greek enekrypsen (ἐνέκρυψεν) means "hid" or "concealed" — not merely "mixed in," suggesting the Kingdom works invisibly, buried inside the ordinary. The tria sata (three seahs, ~40 litres) is a conspicuously large quantity, evoking Genesis 18:6 where Sarah prepares three seahs of flour for the divine visitors — a feast of abundance foreshadowing the messianic banquet. The F.O.G retains "hid" and "three measures" to preserve both the hiddenness and the Genesis echo; the F.O.G Message uses "worked through" and "three great measures" to make the scale and pervasive transformation more viscerally felt in English.
