קָנָא qânâʼ — to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious
Translated in the KJV as envy, be (move to, provoke to) jealous, × very, zeal.
a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious.
qânâʼ in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 10Wayyiqtol 7Jussive 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 2Infinitive absolute 2Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›