Bible Dictionaries
Envy

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Emulation; rivalry.

(2):

(n.) Public odium; ill repute.

(3):

(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.

(4):

(n.) Malice; ill will; spite.

(5):

(n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; - usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.

(6):

(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; - used especially with at.

(7):

(v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.

(8):

(v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.

(9):

(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.

(10):

(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

(11):

(v. t.) To hate.

(12):

(v. t.) To emulate.

(13):

(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Envy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/envy.html. 1828.