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Strong's G2206 ζηλόω (zeloo)

Zeloo means “affect” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2206 — zaqan (“beard”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2206
Language Greek
Linked Usages 54
Books 24

Strong's G2206 Quick Answer

Strong's G2206 ζηλόω (zeloo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. zeloo (dzay-loh'-o) v. 1. to have warmth of feeling for or against [from G2205] It has 54 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include envy, covet, have, desire, and affect. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
zeloo (dzay-loh'-o) v. 1. to have warmth of feeling for or against [from G2205]
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
envy, covet, have, desire, and affect

Meaning and Definition

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

Original Word
ζηλόω
Transliteration
zeloo
Derivation
Root: ζῆλος R1: 2205
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2206. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

be eager

Usage: ζηλόω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for קָנָא pi. ;] __1. to burn with envy or jealousy, to be jealousy: absol., Act.7:9 17:5, 1Co.13:4, Jas.4:2 (R, mg., cf. Mayor, in l). __2. to seek or desire eagerly: with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.12:31 14:1 14:39 (cf. Sir.50:18, Wis.1:12); with accusative of person(s), 2Co.11:2, Gal.4:17; pass., Gal.4:18.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2206 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zeloo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G2206 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 28 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2206 (ζηλόω) appears 46 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2206 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2206 in the New Testament

11 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 7:9 KJV

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

Acts 17:5 KJV

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.

1 Corinthians 12:31 KJV

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

Strong's G2206 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 26:14 Septuagint / Brenton

And he had cattle of sheep, and cattle of oxen, and many tilled lands, and the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 30:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And Rachel having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.

Genesis 37:11 Septuagint / Brenton

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

Strong's G2206 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 9:4 Septuagint / Brenton

and hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O my God, hear me also a widow.

1 Maccabees 2:24 Septuagint / Brenton

Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to show his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

1 Maccabees 2:26 Septuagint / Brenton

Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God, like as Phinehas did unto Zimri the son of Salu.

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2206.

Genesis 26:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he had cattle of sheep, and cattle of oxen, and many tilled lands, and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 30:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Rachel having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.
Genesis 37:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Numbers 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she should not be defiled;
Numbers 5:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute toward her all this law.
Numbers 11:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to him, Art thou jealous on my account? and would that all the Lord’s people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put his spirit upon them.
Numbers 25:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Numbers 25:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord saw, and was jealous; And was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,
Joshua 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua said to the people, Indeed ye will not be able to serve the Lord, for God is holy; and he being jealous will not forgive your sins and your transgressions.
2 Kingdoms 21:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And King David called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites are not the children of Israel, but are of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them: but Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Kingdoms 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thee: they have dug down thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.
3 Kingdoms 19:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and they have overthrown thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword! and I am left entirely alone, and they seek my life to take it.
4 Kingdoms 10:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to him, Come with me, and see me zealous for the Lord. And he caused him to sit in his chariot.
Psalms 72:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I was jealous of the transgressors, Beholding the tranquility of sinners.
Proverbs 3:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither do thou covet their ways.
Proverbs 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go not in the ways of the ungodly, Neither covet the ways of transgressors.
Proverbs 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go to the ant, O sluggard; And see, and emulate his ways, And become wiser than he.
Proverbs 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not thy heart envy sinners: But be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day.
Proverbs 24:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My son, envy not bad men, Nor desire to be with them.
Proverbs 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rejoice not in evildoers, Neither be envious of sinners.
Isaiah 11:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again show his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.
Isaiah 11:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Judah shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not afflict Ephraim.
Ezekiel 31:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.
Ezekiel 39:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name.
Joel 2:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the Lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people.
Zechariah 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry out and say, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and Zion with great jealousy.
Zechariah 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy, and I have been jealous for her with great fury.
Acts 7:9 New Testament, KJV
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 17:5 New Testament, KJV
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.
1 Corinthians 12:31 New Testament, KJV
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13:4 New Testament, KJV
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 14:1 New Testament, KJV
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:39 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
2 Corinthians 11:2 New Testament, KJV
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.
Galatians 4:17 New Testament, KJV
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Galatians 4:18 New Testament, KJV
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
James 4:2 New Testament, KJV
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.
Revelation 3:19 New Testament, KJV
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Judith 9:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O my God, hear me also a widow.
1 Maccabees 2:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to show his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.
1 Maccabees 2:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God, like as Phinehas did unto Zimri the son of Salu.
1 Maccabees 2:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me.
1 Maccabees 2:50 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
now therefore, my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
1 Maccabees 2:54 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Phinehas our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
1 Maccabees 2:58 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Elijah for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven.
2 Maccabees 4:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
By reason whereof sore calamity came upon them: for they had them to be their enemies and avengers, whose custom they followed so earnestly, and unto whom they desired to be like in all things.
Wisdom of Solomon 1:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Seek not death in the error of your life: And pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
Wisdom of Sirach 9:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, And teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.
Wisdom of Sirach 9:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Envy not the glory of a sinner: For thou knowest not what shall be his end.
Wisdom of Sirach 37:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: And hide thy counsel from such as envy thee.
Wisdom of Sirach 45:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Strangers conspired together against him, And maligned him in the wilderness, Even the men that were of Dathan’s and Abiram’s side, And the congregation of Korah, with fury and wrath.
Wisdom of Sirach 45:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The third in glory is Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord, And stood up with good courage of heart when the people were turned back, And made reconciliation for Israel.
Wisdom of Sirach 51:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For I purposed to do after her, And earnestly I followed that which is good; So shall I not be confounded.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2206, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 4 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 2 usages, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2206 FAQ

What does zeloo (ζηλόω) mean?

Zeloo (Strong's G2206) is a Greek word most simply glossed "affect". zeloo (dzay-loh'-o) v. 1. to have warmth of feeling for or against [from G2205]

How many times is zeloo (ζηλόω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's G2206 across 24 books.

Where can I study zeloo (ζηλόω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2206 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate zeloo (ζηλόω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as envy, covet, have, desire, affect, and affected. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2206 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2206, with linked reader references where each row is available.