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Greek verb · G3863

παραζηλόω

parazeloopar-ad-zay-lo'-o

to make envious

4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: parazēlóō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3863is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3863

to stimulate alongside, i.e. excite to rivalry

The King James renders it: provoke to emulation (jealousy).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

parazeloo is rendered "to make envious". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 10:19I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

Romans 10:19παραζηλώσω

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's four uses are in Romans.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • do we provoke to jealousy1
  • I will provoke to jealousy1
  • to provoke to jealousy1
  • will provoke to jealousy1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

παράparafrom/with/besideUses192
παραδίδωμιparadidomito deliverUses119
παρακαλέωparakaleoto plead/comfortUses108
παραβολήparaboleparableUses50
παραλαμβάνωparalambanoto takeUses49
παραγίνομαιparaginomaito comeUses36
παραγγέλλωparangelloto orderUses31
παράκλησιςparaklesisencouragementUses29
παράπτωμαparaptomatrespassUses19
παρατίθημιparatithemito set beforeUses19
παραχρῆμαparachremainstantlyUses18
παράδοσιςparadosistraditionUses13

and 60 more on the stem.

All 4, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • παραζηλώσω2
  • παραζηλοῦμεν1
  • παραζηλῶσαι1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular2V-FAI-1S
  • verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
  • verb · present active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PAI-1P

Romans

three uses
  • I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

    Romans 10:19

    • παραζηλώσωparazelosoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will provoke to jealousy
  • I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

    Romans 11:11

    • παραζηλῶσαιparazelosaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to provoke to jealousy
  • in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

    Romans 11:14

    • παραζηλώσωparazelosoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will provoke to jealousy

1 Corinthians

one use
  • Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

    1 Corinthians 10:22

    • παραζηλοῦμενparazeloumenverb · present active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: do we provoke to jealousy

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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