ζηλωταί (zelotai)

ζηλωταί is an Ancient Greek form of ζηλωτός, meaning “enviable, admirable”.

It can also be a form of ζηλωτής, “zealous follower, enthusiast”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cicero 43.2: … λᾳ συνεκπλεῦσαι εἰς Συρίαν ἐπεὶ δʼ οἱ μέλλοντες ὑπατεύειν μετʼ Ἀντώνιον, Ἵρτιος καί Πάνσας, ἄνδρες ἀγαθοὶ καί ζηλωταὶ τοῦ Κικέρωνος, ἐδέοντο μὴ σφᾶς καταλιπεῖν, ὑποδεχόμενοι καταλύσειν Ἀντώνιον ἐκείνου παρόντος, ὁ δʼ οὔτʼ ἀπιστ …

New Testament, 1 Corinthians 14.12: οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς, ἐπεὶ ζηλωταί ἐστε πνευμάτων, πρὸς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τῆς ἐκκλησίας ζητεῖτε ἵνα περισσεύητε.

All forms of ζηλωτός (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.