[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/jealousy.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / jealousy [← J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/J/) # jealousy «jealousy» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the unhappy, angry feeling of wanting what someone else has** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (jealousy, jealousies) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Jealousy is the unhappy, angry feeling of wanting what someone else has. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#m1) 2) Jealousy is the fear that someone you love likes another person more than you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#m2) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It can mean God's passionate demand for loyalty. It also appears in the law of a husband who suspects his wife of unfaithfulness. In Psalms and Proverbs it is also a burning, fierce feeling, which Proverbs says is harder to stand against than anger. Interpretation: The "law of jealousy" is the sotah ritual, which commentators see as a way to settle suspicion and protect the peace of the home. Worship of other gods is called provoking God to jealousy, and the psalms picture God's jealousy as a fire. In the primary lessons: In PSHE lessons pupils learn that jealousy is a normal feeling (a new baby sibling, a friend with a new bike, someone else picked first) and how to handle it: talk about it, notice your own good things, be happy for others. In stories jealousy causes trouble, as in Cinderella's stepsisters or Joseph's brothers. Phrases: feel jealousy, out of jealousy, green with envy. ### examples - They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him. (Torah DEU.32.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x1) - This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; (Torah NUM.5.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x2) - And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before the LORD, and bring it unto the altar. (Torah NUM.5.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x3) - How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire? (Writings PSA.79.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x4) - Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? (Writings PRO.27.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x5) - For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. (Writings PSA.78.58, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x6) - She felt jealousy when her friend won the prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x7) - He broke the toy out of jealousy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x8) - Jealousy is a normal feeling, but don't be unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x9) - The new baby caused some jealousy at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x10) - The stepsisters' jealousy made them cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x11) - Talk to someone if jealousy upsets you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x12) - At present she was full of jealousy of Wendy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/#x13) ### note Mostly uncountable. Adjective: jealous (jealous of someone). Spelling: jeal-ous-y (ea pronounced like «e» in «jelly»). «Jealousy» and «envy» are close: envy is wanting what others have; jealousy also includes fear of losing someone. Green is the colour of jealousy in English. ### In the corpora - [This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.218/) - [They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.901/) - [For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1385/) - [How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1406/) - [For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.175/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «jealousy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jealousy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.