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The New Testament Greek Lexicon

 Strong's Number:  2206 encodedOriginalWord
Original WordWord Origin
 ζηλόω  from (2205)
Transliterated WordPhonetic Spelling
 zēloō dzay-lo'-o
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Parts of SpeechTDNT
 Verb 2:882,297
 Definition
 
  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
 Translated Words
 KJV (12) - affect, 1; be zealous, 1; covet, 1; covet earnestly, 1; desire, 1; envy, 1; misc, 2; more with envy, 2; zealously affect, 2;

NAS (11) - am jealous, 1; becoming jealous, 1; desire earnestly, 2; eagerly seek, 1; eagerly sought, 1; earnestly desire, 1; envious, 1; jealous, 2; seek, 1;

 Verse Count
KJVNAS
 
Acts2
1 Corinthians4
2 Corinthians1
Galatians2
James1
Revelation1
 
Acts2
1 Corinthians4
2 Corinthians1
Galatians2
James1
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Abbreviations Legend:
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament;

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The New Testament Greek Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/.

Bibliography Information
Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Zeloo". "The New Testament Greek Lexicon".
<http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2206>.  

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