[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/jealousy/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [J](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/j/) / jealousy # jealousy noun (jealousy, jealousies) «jealousy» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. Jealousy is the unhappy, angry feeling of wanting what someone else has. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#m1) 2. Jealousy is the fear that someone you love likes another person more than you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#m2) ### In the lessons In PSHE lessons pupils learn that jealousy is a normal feeling (a new baby sibling, a friend with a new bike, someone else picked first) and how to handle it: talk about it, notice your own good things, be happy for others. In stories jealousy causes trouble, as in Cinderella's stepsisters or Joseph's brothers. Phrases: feel jealousy, out of jealousy, green with envy. ### Examples - She felt jealousy when her friend won the prize. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x1) - He broke the toy out of jealousy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x2) - Jealousy is a normal feeling, but don't be unkind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x3) - The new baby caused some jealousy at home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x4) - The stepsisters' jealousy made them cruel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x5) - Talk to someone if jealousy upsets you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x6) - At present she was full of jealousy of Wendy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x7) ### Note Mostly uncountable. Adjective: jealous (jealous of someone). Spelling: jeal-ous-y (ea pronounced like «e» in «jelly»). «Jealousy» and «envy» are close: envy is wanting what others have; jealousy also includes fear of losing someone. Green is the colour of jealousy in English. ## In Jewish tradition It can mean God's passionate demand for loyalty. It also appears in the law of a husband who suspects his wife of unfaithfulness. In Psalms and Proverbs it is also a burning, fierce feeling, which Proverbs says is harder to stand against than anger. **Interpretation.** The "law of jealousy" is the sotah ritual, which commentators see as a way to settle suspicion and protect the peace of the home. Worship of other gods is called provoking God to jealousy, and the psalms picture God's jealousy as a fire. ### Examples - They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him. (Torah DEU.32.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x1) - This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; (Torah NUM.5.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x2) - And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before the LORD, and bring it unto the altar. (Torah NUM.5.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x3) - How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire? (Writings PSA.79.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x4) - Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? (Writings PRO.27.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x5) - For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. (Writings PSA.78.58, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x6) ### Note Mostly uncountable. Adjective: jealous (jealous of someone). Spelling: jeal-ous-y (ea pronounced like «e» in «jelly»). «Jealousy» and «envy» are close: envy is wanting what others have; jealousy also includes fear of losing someone. Green is the colour of jealousy in English. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «jealousy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«jealousy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/jealousy.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «jealousy» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«jealousy» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/jealousy.html) on Mova free.