Words the Bible translates as envy
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- zēloōζηλόωto burn with intense feeling for someone or something: to be zealous or jealously devoted, to set your heart eagerly on it, or, on its dark side, to envy.
- zēlosζῆλοςburning devotion: an intense, heated ardor for someone or something held dear
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- jealousy: a resentful, rivalrous heat that begrudges others and breeds conflict
- qinahקִנְאָהa burning, possessive intensity of feeling stirred when something one claims as one's own is threatened, rivaled, or surpassed
- qanaקָנָאto burn with feeling over an exclusive claim: to be jealous, zealous, or envious depending on whether the claim is rightful and how it is expressed
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- to provoke someone to jealousy: to stir up another's jealous anger, used of Israel goading God with rival worship
- phthonosφθόνοςenvy: bitter ill will at another person's good, wanting them stripped of it rather than wanting it for yourself
- palasפָּלַסto bring something to true level, as a balance beam or a builder's level does: to grade a path smooth, or to weigh a thing out and size it up
- phthoneōφθονέωto envynot studied yet
- zēleuōζηλεύωto envynot studied yet
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