STRONGS G2204:
ζέω;
to boil with heat, be hot; often in Greek writings; thus of water, Homer, Iliad 18, 349; 21, 362 (365); metaphorically, used of 'boiling' anger, love, zeal for what is good or bad, etc. (Tragg., Plato, Plutarch, others);
ζέων (on this uncontracted form cf.
Bttm. Ausf. Spr. [or his School Gram. (Robinson's translation)] § 105 N. 2, i., p. 481; Matthiae, i., p. 151; [Hadley § 371 b.])
τῷ πνεύματι,
fervent in spirit, said of zeal for what is good,
Acts 18:25;
Romans 12:11; cf. especially Rückert and Fritzsche on Romans, the passage cited.
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