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Lexicon :: Strong's G2206 - zēloō

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ζηλόω
Transliteration
zēloō (Key)
Pronunciation
dzay-lo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:882,297

Strong’s Definitions

†ζηλόω zēlóō, dzay-lo'-o; from G2205; to have warmth of feeling for or against:—affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G2206 in the following manner: zealously affect (2x), more with envy (2x), envy (1x), be zealous (1x), affect (1x), desire (1x), covet (1x), covet earnestly (1x), miscellaneous (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G2206 in the following manner: zealously affect (2x), more with envy (2x), envy (1x), be zealous (1x), affect (1x), desire (1x), covet (1x), covet earnestly (1x), miscellaneous (2x).

  1. to burn with zeal

    1. to be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger

      1. in a good sense, to be zealous in the pursuit of good

    2. to desire earnestly, pursue

      1. to desire one earnestly, to strive after, busy one's self about him

      2. to exert one's self for one (that he may not be torn from me)

      3. to be the object of the zeal of others, to be zealously sought after

    3. to envy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ζηλόω zēlóō, dzay-lo'-o; from G2205; to have warmth of feeling for or against:—affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect).
STRONGS G2206:
ζηλεύω; equivalent to ζηλόω, which see;
1. to envy, be jealous: Simplicius in Epictetus c. 26, p. 131, Salinas edition. (c. 19, 2, p. 56, 34 Didot) οὐδείς τῶν τ' ἀγαθόν τό ἀνθρώπινον ζητούντων φθονει ἤ ζηλευει πότε.
2. in a good sense, to imitate emulously, strive after: ἔργα ἀρετῆς, οὐ λόγους, Demosthenes quoted in Stab. flor. app. 14, 7, iv. 384, Gaisf. edition; intransitive, to be full of zeal for good, be zealous: Revelation 3:19 L T Tr text WH, for Rec. ζήλωσον (cf. WH's Appendix, p. 171).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Revelation
3:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2206 matches the Greek ζηλόω (zēloō),
which occurs 12 times in 11 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:9 - And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:5 - But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:31 - But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:4 - Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:1 - Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual manifestations, but rather that ye may prophesy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:39 - So that, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid the speaking with tongues.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:2 - For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:17 - They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:18 - But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:2 - Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:19 - I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.
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