qana' - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Strong's H7065 קָנָא (qana') is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qana' (kaw-naw') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious [a primitive root] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include jealous, envious, envy, envied, and she. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
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).
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be jealous
Usage: 1) to envy, be jealous, be envious, be zealous 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to be jealous of 1a2) to be envious of 1a3) to be zealous for 1a4) to excite to jealous anger 1b) (Hiphil) to provoke to jealous anger, cause jealousy
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qana', 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old 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.
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27 indexed usages in Old Testament.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7065.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
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:
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.
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!
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.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked:
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.
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.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7065, grouped by book.
Strong's H7065 is a Hebrew entry for H7065 קָנָא (qana'). qana' (kaw-naw') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's H7065 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7065 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as jealous, envious, envy, envied, she, and zealous. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.