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# קַנָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7067

**jealous** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

jealous [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7067/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַנָּא: adj. jealous [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7067/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. jealous;—only of God: אֵל קַנָּא Ex 20:5 (E) = Dt 5:9 (as punishing those who hate him), Ex 34:14 (J); Dt 4:24; 6:15 (demanding exclusive service); קַנָּא שְׁמוֹ Ex 34:14 (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: jealous (5); \[is\] jealous (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.24/#tree)

כִּ֚י יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֵ֥שׁ אֹכְלָ֖ה ה֑וּא אֵ֖ל קַנָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) Yahweh God your \[is\].a.fire consuming he a.God jealous

*JPS 1917:* For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

[Exodus 34:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.14/#tree)

כִּ֛י לֹ֥א תִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖ה לְאֵ֣ל אַחֵ֑ר כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ קַנָּ֣א שְׁמ֔וֹ אֵ֥ל קַנָּ֖א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not you.must.bow.down to a.god another (dm) Yahweh \[is\].jealous name his \[is\].a.God jealous he

*JPS 1917:* For thou shalt bow down to no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7067.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7067/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).