El Kanna — Jealous God
אֵל קַנָּא
Jealous God — 'YHVH, whose name is Jealous' — the burning exclusivity of covenant love.
Not envy but covenant fire — the jealousy of a husband for a bride, which both traditions read as the measure of how seriously God takes love. This is the verse the scribes guarded with an oversized letter so 'another god' could never be misread.
First occurrence
Exod 20:5 — In the Ten Words
Key passages
Exod 34:14 — 'YHVH, whose name is Jealous, is El Kanna' — the verse of the enlarged resh
Deut 4:24 — 'A consuming fire, El Kanna'
In the Greek Scriptures
Θεὸς ζηλωτής