# H7065 קָנָא

קָנָא (qânâʼ), Strong’s H7065: to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious KJV: (be) envy(-ious), be (move to, provoke to) jealous(-y), [idiom] very, (be) zeal(-ous)…

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*qânâʼ* — to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious

KJV: (be) envy(-ious), be (move to, provoke to) jealous(-y), [idiom] very, (be) zeal(-ous).

Occurs 33 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [קָנָא] vb. denom.
- Pi. be jealous, zealous
- 1 be jealous of
- 2 be envious of
- 3 be zealous for
- 4 excite to jealous anger
- Hiph. provoke to jealous anger

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=14) — He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
- [Genesis 30:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=1) — When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or…
- [Genesis 37:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=11) — His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
- [Numbers 5:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=14) — and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy…
- [Numbers 5:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=30) — or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the…
- [Numbers 11:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=29) — Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would…
- [Numbers 25:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/25?v=11) — “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in…
- [Numbers 25:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/25?v=13) — It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous…
- [Deuteronomy 32:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=16) — They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
- [Deuteronomy 32:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=21) — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will…