zēlōtos

Strong’sG2208

the Zealot

stem zēlōt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ζηλωτής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ζηλόω), [in LXX for קַנָּא (θεὸς ζ.), Ex 20:5 34:14, De 4:24 5:9 6:15; קַנּוֹא, Na 1:2 (θεός); pl., I Es 8:72; ζ. τῶν νόμων, II Mac 4:2;τὸν ζ. Φινεές, IV Mac 18:12 (cf. Nu 25:11)*;]

1. in cl. an emulator, zealous admirer (Plat., al.).

2. eagerly desirous, zealous;

(a) absol., as in OT, Ex 20:5 34:14, De 4:24 5:9 6:15, Na 1:2, I Es 8:72;

(b) c. gen. obj.: (zealous to acquire or to defend), I Co 14:12, Tit 2:14, I Pe 3:13; τ. νομου (II Mac 4:2), Ac 21:20; παραδόσεων, Ga 1:14; c. gen. pers., θεοῦ, Ac 22:3.

3. In FlJ, NT, a Zealot, member of the Jewish party so called: as surname of the Apostle Simon, Lk 6:15, Ac 1:13.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2208 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddzay-lo-tace'

a Zealot, i.e. (specially) partisan for Jewish political independence

Fromthe same as G2207;

King JamesZelotes.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ζηλ-ωτής, οῦ, ὁ,
emulator, zealous admirer or follower, μιμητὴς καὶ ζ. τῆς πατρῴας ἀρετῆς Refs 5th c.BC+; μαθήσεως NT+1st c.BC+; Θουκυδίδου, Ἀντισθένους, Refs 2nd c.AD+; perhaps champion, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 jealous, θεὸς ζ. LXX
II zealot, used to translate Κανανίτης or Καναναῖος, NT+1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

zealot1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	zēlōtos	zēlōtois
object accusative	zēlōton1×Ζηλωτὴν	zēlōtoin
direct address vocative	zēlōtor	zēlōtoir
of, belonging to genitive	zēlōtou	zēlōtoiu
to, for dative	zēlōto	zēlōtoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

zēlōtstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

zēlōto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

zēlōtos — ζηλωτής, a zealot

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

zēlōton“zealot”objectaccusative singular1×

Luke 6:15… Iakōbon Halfaiou kai Simōnon ton kalorōnton Zēlōton… of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot;