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קָנָא

Definition and meaning

qana' (kaw-naw') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious [a primitive root] KJV: (be) envy(-ious), be (move to, provoke to) jealous(-y), X very, (be) zeal(-ous).

Tagged KJV passages

28 matching verses - 33.0 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.

Genesis 26:14

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Matched English: envied
Genesis 30:1

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Matched English: envied
Genesis 37:11

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Matched English: envied
Numbers 5:14

And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

Matched English: jealous, jealous
Numbers 5:30

Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Matched English: jealous
Numbers 11:29

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

Matched English: Enviest
Numbers 25:11

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Matched English: zealous
Numbers 25:13

And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

Matched English: zealous
Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Matched English: jealousy
Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Matched English: jealousy, jealousy
2 Samuel 21:2

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them;(now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

Matched English: zeal
1 Kings 14:22

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Matched English: jealousy
1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Matched English: very, jealous
1 Kings 19:14

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Matched English: very, jealous
Psalms 37:1

A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Matched English: envious
Psalms 73:3

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Matched English: envious
Psalms 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Matched English: jealousy
Psalms 106:16

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

Matched English: envied
Proverbs 3:31

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Matched English: Envy
Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Matched English: envy
Proverbs 24:1

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Matched English: envious
Proverbs 24:19

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

Matched English: envious
Isaiah 11:13

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.

Matched English: envy
Ezekiel 31:9

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Matched English: envied