ζήλου (zelou)

ζήλου is an Ancient Greek form of ζῆλος, meaning “zeal, rivalry, jealousy”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 10.4: καὶ γὰρ οἷς φθόνου τι καὶ ζήλου πρὸς αὐτὸν ὑπέκειτο τιμώμενον ἐκπρεπῶς, κἀκείνοις τότε τοῦ λαβεῖν μεγάλα τῷ μὴ λαβεῖν ἄξιος ἔδοξε, καὶ μᾶλλον …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 35.319: … Χριστιανῶν· οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλος θεὸς πλὴν τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ σὺν Πατρὶ καὶ Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι δοξαζομένου. Ζήλου δὲ θείου κατάπλεως γενόμενος, ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀβεννὴρ ἐφάλλεται στερρῶς τοῖς εἰδώλοις ἂ ἦσαν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ αὐτοῦ ἐ …

All forms of ζῆλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.