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Envious
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EN'VIOUS, a. Feeling or harboring envy repining or feeling uneasiness, at a view of the excellence, prosperity or happiness of another pained by the desire of possessing some superior good which another possesses, and usually disposed to deprive him of that good, to lessen it or to depreciate it in common estimation. Sometimes followed by against, but generally and properly by at, before the person envied.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Proverbs 14
Be not envious of the blessings or prosperity of others.
1. Tinctured with envy as an envious disposition.
2. Excited or directed by envy as an envious attack.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Envious'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/envious.html.
Entry for 'Envious'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/envious.html.
