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קַנּוֹא

qannôwʼ · H7072 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. jealous

    Attitude by which deities insist on receiving the attention and commitment that is in keeping with one's status

    Examples

    Joshua 24:19 Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your wrongdoing or your sins.

    Nahum 1:2 A jealous and avenging God is the LORD; The LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies.

How it’s used

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

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
Angry002001002002
The word describes God as jealous, directly illustrated by Joshua's warning that "He is a jealous God" who will not forgive persistent wrongdoing (Joshua 24:19) and Nahum's description of the LORD as "a jealous and avenging God" (Nahum 1:2).
Word family 4 words

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

קָנָא qânâʼ · H7065 · to be zealous, to be wrought up, to be concerned for · 34×קִנְאָה qinʼâh · H7068 · zeal, passion, rage · 43×קַנָּא qannâʼ · H7067 · jealous · 6×קַנּוֹאqannôwʼ · H7072
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7072. qanno קַנּוֺא adjective id.; — קַנּוֺא אֵל Jos 24:19 (E) (compare Deu 6:15 above),…
H7072. qanno
קַנּוֺא adjective id.; — קַנּוֺא אֵל Jos 24:19 (E) (compare Deu 6:15 above), Nah 1:2 (|| נֹקֵם).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Angry2 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

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