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(
)
, 2207) is used adjectivally, of “being zealous” (a) “of the Law,”
Acts 21:20; (b) “toward God,” lit., “of God,” 22:3,
RV
, “for God”; (c) “of spiritual gifts,”
1 Cor. 14:12, i.e., for exercise of spiritual gifts (lit., “of spirits,” but not to be interpreted
literally); (d) “for (
KJV
, ‘of’) the traditions of my fathers,” Gal. 1:14, of Paul’s loyalty to
Judaism before his conversion; (e) “of good works,” Titus 2:14.
The word is, lit., “a zealot,” i.e., “an uncompromising partisan.” The “Zealots” was a
name applied to an extreme section of the Pharisees, bitterly antagonistic to the Romans.
Josephus (
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xviii. 1. 1, 6;
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ii. 8. 1) refers to them as the “fourth sect of Jewish
philosophy” (i.e., in addition to the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes), founded by Judas
of Galilee (cf. Acts 5:37). After his rebellion in A.D. 6, the Zealots nursed the fires of
revolt, which, bursting out afresh in A.D. 66, led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. To
this sect Simon, one of the apostles, had belonged, Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13. The equivalent
Hebrew and Aramaic term was “Cananaean” (Matt. 10:4); this is not connected with
Canaan, as the
KJV
“Canaanite” would suggest, but is derived from Heb.
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,
“jealous.”¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
, 2206), “to be jealous,” also signifies “to seek or desire eagerly”; in
Gal. 4:17,
RV
, “they zealously seek (you),” in the sense of taking a very warm interest in,
so in v. 18, passive voice, “to be zealously sought” (
KJV
, “to be zealously affected”), i.e.,
to be the object of warm interest on the part of others; some texts have this verb in Rev.
3:19 (see No. 2). See
AFFECT
,
:
COVET
,
DESIRE
,
ENVY
,
JEALOUS
.
2.
$
, a late and rare form of No. 1, is found in the best texts in Rev. 3:19, “be
zealous.Ӧ
Note:
For
$
, Gal. 2:10,
RV
, see
DILIGENT
, B, No. 1.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
ON THE PARTICLE
(2532)
(
a
) The particle
kai
, “and,” chiefly used for connecting words, clauses and sentences
(the copulative or connective use), not infrequently signifies “also.” This is the
adjunctive
, or
amplificatory
, use, and it is to be distinguished from the purely copulative
significance “and.” A good illustration is provided in Matt. 8:9, in the words of the
centurion, “I also am a man under authority.” Other instances are Matt. 5:39, 40; 8:9;
10:18; 18:33; 20:4; Luke 11:49; 12:41, 54, 57; 20:3; John 5:26, “the Son also,”
RV
; 7:3;
12:10; 14:1, 3, 7, 19; 15:9, 27; 17:24; Acts 11:17; Rom. 1:13; 6:11; 1 Cor. 7:3; 11:25;
15:30; Gal. 6:1; Phil. 4:12, “I know also,”
RV
, 1 Thess. 3:12. In 1 Cor. 2:13 the
kai
phrase
signifies “which are the very things we speak, with the like power of the Holy Spirit.”
This use includes the meanings “so,” or “just so,” by way of comparison, as in Matt.
6:10, and “so also,” e.g., John 13:33; cf. Rom. 11:16. In Heb. 7:26 the most authentic
mss. have
kai
in the first sentence, which may be rendered “for such a High Priest also
became us.” Here it virtually has the meaning “precisely.”