G2206 ζηλόω
Strong's Greek Concordance · 12 KJV occurrences
ζηλόω
zēlóō
Definition
to have warmth of feeling for or against
KJV Renderings
affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect)
Derivation / Etymology
from G2205 (ζῆλος);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 12)
- Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
- Acts 17:5¶ But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- 1 Corinthians 14:1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
- Galatians 4:17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
- Galatians 4:18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
- James 4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.