ζηλωτής
zealot
‘zealot’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2207 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Peter
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun ζηλωτης centers on the idea of “zealot.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 6:15. The Greek New Testament uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Acts dominates its distribution — 3 of 8 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2207 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 38%
- Luke 1 verse 13%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 13%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 38%
- Gospels 1 verse · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zealous 5×
- American Standard Version: Zealous 5×, Zealot 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zealous 4×, Zealot 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zealous 5×, Zealot 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2207 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2207 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2207 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2207 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- one burning with zeal, a zealot
- used of God as jealous of any rival and sternly vindicating his control
- most eagerly desirous of, zealous for, a thing
Word origin
Derived from ζηλοω (zēlóō) (G2206) — to be zealous.
From G2206 ; a zealot : - zealous.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2207 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ζηλωτὴς zēlōtḕs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 1:13 | 3 |
| ζηλωταὶ zēlōtaì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 21:20 | 2 |
| ζηλωτήν zēlōtḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 6:15 | 1 |
| ζηλωταί zēlōtaí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 14:12 | 1 |
| ζηλωτὴν zēlōtḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Titus 2:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2207, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ζηλωτης appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 6 verses in 3 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 6
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 20:5 ζηλωτής
- Deuteronomy 4:24 ζηλωτής
- Nahum 1:2 ζηλωτής
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2207) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 20:5 ζηλωτής you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 34:14 ζηλωτής for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 4:24 ζηλωτής For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 5:9 ζηλωτής you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
- Deuteronomy 6:15 ζηλωτής for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
- Nahum 1:2 ζηλωτής Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2207) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
