1. קָנָא
be jealous, zealous, be jealous of, be envious of
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיְקַנְא֥וּ
qana · vb. denom
be jealous, zealous, be jealous of, be envious of
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 33 · 1.08/10k
Senses
2. קָנָא
to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious
Attestations
- וַ/יְקַנְא֥וּ Genesis 26:14 (BHS)
- וַ/תְּקַנֵּ֥א Genesis 30:1 (BHS)
- וַ/יְקַנְאוּ Genesis 37:11 (BHS)
- וְ/קִנֵּ֥א Numbers 5:14 (BHS)
- וְ/קִנֵּ֣א Numbers 5:14 (BHS)
- וְ/קִנֵּ֣א Numbers 5:30 (BHS)
6 of 33 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.