To envy
פָּלַסStrong’s H6424palas (pa-las)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Palas is the Hebrew word usually translated “weigh out”, “made level” and “make level”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to weigh, make level, balanceto weigh out · to make level or smooth
How it's translated
- you weigh out 1
- he made level 1
- make level 1
- she should make level 1
- making level 1
- you make level 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 78:50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
- Proverbs 4:26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
- Proverbs 5:6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- Proverbs 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
- Isaiah 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּלַס palas · to envy
1) (Piel) to weigh, make level, balance 1a) to weigh out 1b) to make level or smooth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “envy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'VY, verb transitive
[Latin invideo, in and video, to see against, that is, to look with enmity.]
- 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.“Envy not thou the oppressor” Proverbs 3:31
- To grudge; to withhold maliciously.
All definitions and other forms of “envy”
EN'VY, noun
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.
- Rivalry; competition. [Little used.]
- Malice; malignity.
- Public odium; ill repute; invidiousness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.