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Dict: easton - Jealousy



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Jealousy @ suspicion of a wife's purity, one of the strongest passions kjv@Numbers:5:14; kjv@Proverbs:6:34; Cant. 8:6); also an intense interest for another's honour or prosperity kjv@Psalms:79:5; kjv@1Corinthians:10:22; kjv@Zechariah:1:14).



Jealousy offering @ the name of the offering the husband was to bring when he charged his wife with adultery kjv@Numbers:5:11-15).



Jealousy, Image of @ an idolatrous object, seen in vision by Ezekiel kjv@Ezekiel:8:3-5), which stood in the priests' or inner court of the temple. Probably identical with the statue of Astarte ( kjv@2Kings:21:7).



Jealousy, Waters of @ water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence kjv@Numbers:5:12-17, 27). We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted to.