Strong's Greek Concordance

G2208: Ζηλωτής

Zēlōtḗs · “Zealot”

Definition

a Zealot, i.e. (specially) partisan for Jewish political independence

KJV translates it as: Zelotes

Word origin: the same as G2207 (ζηλωτής);

Extended definition

Ζηλωτής
In FlJ, NT,
a Zealot, member of the Jewish party so called: as surname of the Apostle Simon, Luk.6:15, Act.1:13.†
(AS)

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How G2208 is translated

  • zealot ×2

Bible verses with G2208 (Zēlōtḗs)

Zēlōtḗs appears in 2 verses.

  • Luke 6:15

    Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes,

  • Acts 1:13

    And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.