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Envy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pain, uneasiness, mortification or discontent excited by the sight of another's superiority or success, accompanied with some degree of hatred or malignity, and often or usually with a desire or an effort to depreciate the person, and with pleasure in seeing him depressed. envy springs from pride, ambition or love, mortified that another has obtained what one has a strong desire to possess.

2. Envy and admiration are the Scylla and Charybdis of authors.

3. All human virtue, to its latest breath,

4. Finds envy never conquered, but by death.

5. Emulation differs from envy in not being accompanied with hatred and a desire to depress a more fortunate person.

6. Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,

7. Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

8. It is followed by of or to. They did this in envy of Caesar, or in envy to his genius. The former seems to be preferable.

9. Rivalry; competition. [Little used.]

10. Malice; malignity.

11. You turn the good we offer into envy

12. Public odium; ill repute; invidiousness.

13. To discharge the king of the envy of that opinion.

Envy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To feel uneasiness, mortification or discontent, at the sight of superior excellence, reputation or happiness enjoyed by another; to repine at another's prosperity; to fret or grieve one's self at the real or supposed superiority of another, and to hate him on that account.

2. Envy not thou the oppressor. Proverbs 3:31 .

3. Whoever envies another, confesses his superiority.

4. To grudge; to withhold maliciously.

5. To envy at, used by authors formerly, is now obsolete.

6. Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?

Envy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Malice; ill will; spite.

2. 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.

3. Emulation; rivalry.

4. Public odium; ill repute.

5. An object of envious notice or feeling.

Envy [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.

2. To show malice or ill will; to rail.

Envy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.

4. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

5. To hate.

6. To emulate.

Envying [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Mortification experienced at the supposed prosperity and happiness of another.

2. Ill will at others, on account of some supposed superiority. Galatians 5:21 .

Envying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Feeling uneasiness at the superior condition and happiness of another.

Envying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Envy

Envyned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stored or furnished with wine.

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Job 5:2

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Psalms 37:1

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

Psalms 68:16

Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

Proverbs 3:31

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

Proverbs 24:1

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 11:13

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

Isaiah 26:11

LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

Ezekiel 31:9

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

Ezekiel 35:11

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.

Mark 7:22

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Mark 15:10

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over.

Acts 7:9

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Acts 17:5

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.