kina · jealousy, zeal

What it means

kina (קִנְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “jealousy, zeal”.

Jealousy; also the burning zeal with which someone defends what is his own.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A husband's burning that tolerates no rivals; so is YHWH with his people.
2. Fervor to defend what one loves.
3. To want bitterly what another has or is.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• jealousy ×29
• zeal ×10
• envy ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Ezekiel×10
• Zephaniah×2
• Zechariah×2

• Numbers 5:14

  and a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, and she has made herself unclean; or a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not made herself unclean,

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Numbers 5:18

  And the priest shall set the woman before YHWH and let loose the hair of the head of the woman and put on her palms the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:25

  And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the grain offering of jealousy, and wave the grain offering before YHWH, and bring it to the altar.

• Numbers 5:29

  This is the instruction for jealousy, when a wife, while under the authority of her husband, goes astray and makes herself unclean,

• Numbers 5:30

  or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before YHWH, and the priest shall carry out for her all this instruction.

• Numbers 25:11

  “Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the sons of Israel when he was jealous with my jealousy among them, and I did not make an end of the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

• Deuteronomy 29:20

  YHWH will not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and every oath of imprecation written in this book will settle on him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens.

• 2 Kings 10:16

  He said, “Come with me and see my zeal for YHWH.” So they had him ride in his chariot.

• 2 Kings 19:31

  For from Jerusalem will go out a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• Job 5:2

  For vexation kills the fool, and jealousy puts to death the simple.

• Psalms 69:9

  For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

• Psalms 79:5

  How long, YHWH? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

• Psalms 119:139

  My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten your words.

• Proverbs 6:34

  For jealousy is the fury of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

• Proverbs 14:30

  The life of the flesh is a calm heart, but rot of the bones is envy.

• Proverbs 27:4

  Cruelty of wrath and a flood of anger, but who can stand before jealousy?

• Ecclesiastes 4:4

  And I saw all the toil and all the skill of the work, that it is the envy of a man toward his neighbor. This too is vapor and striving after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 9:6

  Both their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished, and they have no longer a portion forever in all that is done under the sun.

• Song of Songs 8:6

  Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for strong as death is love, hard as Sheol is jealousy; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah.

• Isaiah 9:7

  Of the increase of the dominion and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from now and forever. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• Isaiah 11:13

  And the envy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim.

• Isaiah 26:11

  YHWH, your hand is lifted up; they do not see it. They will see and be ashamed at your zeal for the people; yes, the fire of your adversaries will devour them.

• Isaiah 37:32

  For from Jerusalem will go out a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• Isaiah 42:13

  YHWH like a mighty man will go out; like a man of wars he will stir up zeal; he will shout, indeed, he will raise the war cry; against his enemies he will show himself mighty.

• Isaiah 59:17

  And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.

• Isaiah 63:15

  Look from the heavens and see, from the residence of your holiness and of your beauty. Where are your zeal and your mighty deeds? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion toward me have been restrained.

• Ezekiel 5:13

  And my anger will be spent, and I will make my fury rest on them, and I will be comforted; and they will know that I, YHWH, have spoken in my jealousy when I have spent my fury on them.

• Ezekiel 8:3

  And he stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and a spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of Elohim, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy.

• Ezekiel 8:5

  And he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes toward the north.” And I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and look, north of the gate of the altar was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

• Ezekiel 16:38

  And I will judge you with the judgments of adulteresses and of women who shed blood, and I will make you blood of fury and of jealousy.

• Ezekiel 16:42

  And I will make my fury rest on you, and my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be quiet and will no longer be provoked.

• Ezekiel 23:25

  And I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury; your nose and your ears they will remove, and what remains of you will fall by the sword; they will take your sons and your daughters, and what remains of you will be devoured by fire.

• Ezekiel 35:11

  therefore, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, I will act according to your anger and according to your jealousy with which you acted out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

• Ezekiel 36:5

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with the joy of a whole heart, with contempt of soul, so that its pastureland might be booty.

• Ezekiel 36:6

  Therefore prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I, in my jealousy and in my fury, have spoken, because the disgrace of the nations you have borne.

• Ezekiel 38:19

  And in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath, I have spoken: Surely on that day there will be a great earthquake on the ground of Israel.

• Zephaniah 1:18

  Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; and by the fire of his jealousy all the earth will be devoured; for an extermination, yes, a terrifying one, he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

• Zephaniah 3:8

  Therefore wait for me, declares YHWH, for the day when I rise up for the plunder; for my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them my indignation, all the burning of my anger; for by the fire of my jealousy all the earth will be devoured.

• Zechariah 1:14

  And the angel who talked with me said to me, “Call out, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: I have been jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy.

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