Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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Envy
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James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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φθόνος
phthónos · fthon'-os
7 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
ill-will (as detraction), i.e. jealousy (spite)
Strong's KJV usage: :--envy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 27:18Strong's last: James 4:5
Open full G5355 profile →קִנְאָה
qinʼâh · kin-aw'
7 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
jealousy or envy
Strong's KJV usage: envy(-ied), jealousy, × sake, zeal.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 5:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 35:11
Open full H7068 profile →קָנָא
qânâʼ · kaw-naw'
3 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious
Strong's KJV usage: (be) envy(-ious), be (move to, provoke to) jealous(-y), × very, (be) zeal(-ous).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 3:31Strong's last: Isaiah 11:13
Open full H7065 profile →ζηλόω
zēlóō · dzay-lo'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to have warmth of feeling for or against
Strong's KJV usage: :--affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 7:9Strong's last: Acts 17:5
Open full G2206 profile →ζῆλος
zēlos · dzay'-los
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, heat, i.e. (figuratively) "zeal" (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband (figuratively, of God), or an enemy, malice)
Strong's KJV usage: :--emulation, envy(-ing), fervent mind, indignation, jealousy, zeal.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 13:45Strong's last: Acts 13:45
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H7068
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
H7065
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
H7068
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
H7065
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
H7068
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
H7068
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
H7068
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
H7065
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
H7068
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
H7068
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
G5355
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
G5355
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
G2206
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
G2205
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
G2206
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.
G5355
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
G5355
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
G5355
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
G5355
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
G5355
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
English meaning and historical usage.
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envy
EN'VY, verb transitive [Latin invideo, in and video, to see against, that is, to look with enmity.]
1. To feel uneasiness, mortification or discontent, at the sight of superior excellence, reputation or happiness enjoyed by another; to repine at another's prosperity; to fret or grieve one's self at the real or supposed superiority of another, and to hate him on that account.
Envy not thou the oppressor. Proverbs 3:31.
Whoever envies another, confesses his superiority.
2. To grudge; to withhold maliciously.
To envy at, used by authors formerly, is now obsolete.
Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
EN'VY, noun Pain, uneasiness, mortification or discontent excited by the sight of another's superiority or success, accompanied with some degree of hatred or malignity, and often or usually with a desire or an effort to depreciate the person, and with pleasure in seeing him depressed. envy springs from pride, ambition or love, mortified that another has obtained what one has a strong desire to possess.
Envy and admiration are the Scylla and Charybdis of authors.
All human virtue, to its latest breath,
Finds envy never conquered, but by death.
Emulation differs from envy in not being accompanied with hatred and a desire to depress a more fortunate person.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
It is followed by of or to. They did this in envy of Caesar, or in envy to his genius. The former seems to be preferable.
1. Rivalry; competition. [Little used.]
2. Malice; malignity.
You turn the good we offer into envy
3. Public odium; ill repute; invidiousness.
To discharge the king of the envy of that opinion.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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