Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
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Jealous
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2 Corinthians 11:2
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.
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קָנָא
qânâʼ · kaw-naw'
10 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).
Strong's first: Numbers 5:14Strong's last: Zechariah 8:2
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qannâʼ · kan-naw'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
jealous
Strong's KJV usage: jealous. Compare 7072.
Strong's first: Exodus 20:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 6:15
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qannôwʼ · kan-no'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
jealous or angry
Strong's KJV usage: jealous.
Strong's first: Joshua 24:19Strong's last: Nahum 1:2
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zēlóō · dzay-lo'-o
1 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).
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Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:2Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:2
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H7067
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
H7067
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
H7067
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
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jealous
JEALOUS, adjective jel'us.
1. Suspicious; apprehensive of rivalship; uneasy through fear that another has withdrawn or may withdraw from one the affections of a person he loves, or enjoy some good which he desires to obtain; followed by of, and applied both to the object of love and to the rival. We say, a young man is jealous of the woman he loves, or jealous of his rival. A man is jealous of his wife, and the wife of her husband.
2. Suspicious that we do not enjoy the affection or respect of others, or that another is more loved and respected than ourselves.
3. Emulous; full of competition.
4. Solicitous to defend the honor of; concerned for the character of.
I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts.
1 Kings 19:10.
5. Suspiciously vigilant; anxiously careful and concerned for.
I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. 2 Corinthians 11:2.
6. Suspiciously fearful.
'Tis doing wrong creates such doubts as these,
Renders us jealous and destroys our peace.
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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