James 3:16
New Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
Word-by-Word Analysis
ζῆλος
zēlos
properly, heat, i.e. (figuratively) "zeal" (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband (figuratively, of God), or a...
בֹּשֶׁת
bôsheth
shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Key Terms in This Verse
ζῆλος zēlos
properly, heat, i.e. (figuratively) "zeal" (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband (figuratively, of God), or an enemy, malice)
Study G2205 →בֹּשֶׁת bôsheth
shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
Study H1322 →מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Study H4639 →Cross References
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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