Word

φθόνος

phthónos · G5355 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

envy, jealousy

A state of ill will toward someone because of some real or presumed advantage experienced by such a person

Examples
Matthew 27:18 For he knew that it was because of envy that they had handed Him over.
Mark 15:10 For he was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.
Romans 1:29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀποτίθημιto put away 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 3 groups

διάthrough 5
ἐνin 2
πρόςto, toward, with 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Envy, jealousy88.160: Matthew 27:18 explains that Pilate knew “it was because of envy” that the chief priests had handed Jesus over.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

φθόνοςphthónos · G5355φθονέω phthonéō · G5354 · to be envious, to be jealous · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φθόνου, ὁ, from (Pindar and) Herodotus down, envy: Rom 1:29; Gal 5:21; 1 Tim 6:4; Tit…

φθόνου, ὁ, from (Pindar and) Herodotus down, envy: Rom 1:29; Gal 5:21; 1 Tim 6:4; Tit 3:3; 1 Pet 2:1; διά φθόνον, for envy, i. e. prompted by envy (see διαφθονος B. II. 2b.), Mt 27:18; Mk 15:10; Phm 1:15 (Dio Cassius, 44, 36); πρός φθόνον ἐπιποθεῖ τό πνεῦμα ὁ κατῴκησεν (but see κατοικίζω) ἐν ἡμῖν; doth the Spirit which took up its abode within us (i. e. the Holy Spirit) long enviously? (see πρός, I. 3 g.), Jas 4:5 (but T (WH in second marginal reading) drop the interrogative); see on the passage Grimm in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1854, p. 934ff. (Synonym: see ζῆλος, 2 at the end.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Envy, Jealousy9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0