zealous / jealous (God)

The Hebrew that is translated in English as “zealous” or “jealous” referring to God as the one who has the emotion has to be translated in Kwere with a different term, a Swahili loan word, (wivu) than the one that is used for human jealousy or zeal (migongo). (Source: Pioneer Bible Translators, project-specific translation notes in Paratext)

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