Acts 7:9Mapped KJV word: envy
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S
Open Bibleζηλόω
G2206 · zēlóō · dzay-lo'-o · Greek
Strong’s definition
to have warmth of feeling for or against
KJV usage
:--affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect).
12mapped occurrences
11verses
10KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping
envy 2affect 2earnestly 1envieth 1desire 1covet 1jealous 1affected 1have 1be zealous 1
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Mapped occurrences
Acts 17:5Mapped KJV word: envy
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 12:31Mapped KJV word: earnestly
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13:4Mapped KJV word: envieth
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 14:1Mapped KJV word: desire
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:39Mapped KJV word: covet
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
2 Corinthians 11:2Mapped KJV word: jealous
For 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 4:17Mapped KJV word: affect
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Galatians 4:17Mapped KJV word: affect
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Galatians 4:18Mapped KJV word: affected
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
James 4:2Mapped KJV word: have
Ye 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.
Revelation 3:19Mapped KJV word: be zealous
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.