קָנָאqânâʼ
Pi`el: be jealous, zealous (Numbers 25:13; Zechariah 1:14; Isaiah 11:13)
Pronunciation: kaw-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7065
Meanings
1. be jealous of (Numbers 5:14; Numbers 5:30; Isaiah 11:13)
2. be envious of (Genesis 30:1; Genesis 37:11; Psalms 37:1)
3. be zealous
a. of man (Numbers 11:29; 2 Samuel 21:2; Numbers 25:13)
b. of God (Ezekiel 39:25; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14)
4. excite to jealous anger (Deuteronomy 32:21; Deuteronomy 32:16; 1 Kings 14:22)
Hiph`il: provoke to jealous anger (Deuteronomy 32:16; Psalms 78:58; Deuteronomy 32:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 34 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 26:14 He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
- Genesis 30:1 When Rachel saw that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She pleaded with Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
- Genesis 37:11 But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.
- Numbers 5:14 If her husband becomes jealous and is suspicious of his wife and needs to know whether or not she has defiled herself,
- Numbers 5:30 or if a man becomes jealous and is suspicious that his wife has been unfaithful, the husband must present his wife before the Lord, and the priest will apply this entire ritual law to her.
- Numbers 11:29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).