Words the Bible translates as zeal
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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
- spoudēσπουδήhaste: quick movement that wastes no time getting where it is going
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- eager effort: energy poured promptly and wholeheartedly into something a person takes seriously
- qinahקִנְאָהa burning, possessive intensity of feeling stirred when something one claims as one's own is threatened, rivaled, or surpassed
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