- Original: קנא - Transliteration: Qana' - Phonetic: kaw-naw' - Definition: 1. to envy, be jealous, be envious, be zealous a. (Piel) 1. to be jealous of 2. to be envious of 3. to be zealous for 4. to excite to jealous anger b. (Hiphil) to provoke to jealous anger, cause jealousy - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2038 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to be (causatively make) zealous that is (in a bad sense) jealous or envious: - (be) envy (-ious) be (move to provoke to) jealous (-y) X very (be) zeal (-ous). Total KJV Occurrences: 34 • envied, 5 Genesis 26:14; Genesis 30:1; Genesis 37:11; Psalm 106:16; Ezekiel 31:9 • Enviest, 1 Numbers 11:29 • envious, 4 Psalm 37:1; Psalm 73:3; Proverbs 24:1; Proverbs 24:19 • envy, 3 Proverbs 3:31; Proverbs 23:17; Isaiah 11:13 • jealous, 12 Numbers 5:14(2); Numbers 5:30; 1 Kings 19:10(2); 1 Kings 19:14(2); Ezekiel 39:25; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14; Zechariah 8:2(2) • jealousy, 6 Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21(2); 1 Kings 14:22; Psalm 78:58; Ezekiel 8:3 • zeal, 1 2 Samuel 21:2 • zealous, 2 Numbers 25:11; Numbers 25:13