Strong's #2206: zeloo (pronounced dzay-lo'-o)

from 2205; to have warmth of feeling for or against:--affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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zēloō

1) to burn with zeal

1a) to be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger

1a1) in a good sense, to be zealous in the pursuit of good

1b) to desire earnestly, pursue

1b1) to desire one earnestly, to strive after, busy one' s self about him

1b2) to exert one' s self for one (that he may not be torn from me)

1b3) to be the object of the zeal of others, to be zealously sought after

1c) to envy

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2205

Citing in TDNT: 2:882, 297

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Acts 7:9: "And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt:"
Acts 17:5: "the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd"
1 Corinthians 12:31: "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show"
1 Corinthians 13:4: "suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself,"
1 Corinthians 14:1: "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that"
1 Corinthians 14:39: "Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak"
2 Corinthians 11:2: "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you"
Galatians 4:17: " They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you,"
Galatians 4:17: "exclude you, that ye might affect them."
Galatians 4:18: "But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not"
James 4:2: "not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain:"
Revelation 3:19: "love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."