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
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.
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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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