Words the Bible translates as jealousy
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- zēlosζῆλοςjealousy: a resentful, rivalrous heat that begrudges others and breeds conflict
+1 more meaning
- burning devotion: an intense, heated ardor for someone or something held dear
- qinahקִנְאָהa burning, possessive intensity of feeling stirred when something one claims as one's own is threatened, rivaled, or surpassed
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