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ζηλόω

Definition and meaning

zeloo (dzay-loh'-o) v. 1. to have warmth of feeling for or against [from G2205] KJV: affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect) Root(s): G2205

Tagged KJV passages

11 matching verses - 12.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Acts 7:9

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Matched English: envy
Acts 17:5

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.

Matched English: envy
1 Corinthians 12:31

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Matched English: earnestly
1 Corinthians 13:4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Matched English: envieth
1 Corinthians 14:1

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Matched English: desire
1 Corinthians 14:39

Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

Matched English: covet
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.

Matched English: jealous
Galatians 4:17

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Matched English: affect, affect
Galatians 4:18

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Matched English: affected
James 4:2

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.

Matched English: have
Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Matched English: zealous