English Bible words starting with F
544 meanings beginning with F, in alphabetical order. This is page 2 of 6. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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fattened animal1 word
fattened cattle1 word
fault4 words
- paraptōmaπαράπτωμαa wrongdoing: a concrete act in which someone falls away from what is right and breaks faith with God or neighbor
- aitiaαἰτίαa charge: the stated ground on which someone is accused, found guilty, or condemned
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- a reason: the ground or cause that answers why something is so or is done
- ḥetחֵטְאsin: a wrong that fails a rightful standard, along with the guilt it creates and the penalty it earns
- mumמוּםa blemish: a physical defect or moral fault that mars someone or something otherwise whole.
faultfinder1 word
faultless1 word
favor8 words
- charisχάριςfavor freely shown by someone who is free to give it, and that favor made real in a gift, a standing, or a power at work in the one who receives it
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- thanks: the grateful return owed for kindness received
- graceful charm: the winning, attractive quality of speech
- ḥenחֵןgracious favor freely shown by someone with power to someone without a claim on it, and the attractive quality that draws such favor out
- ratsonרָצוֹןfavorable pleasure: what pleases someone, and so the acceptance or favor they grant and the will they choose to carry out
- yapahיָפַעto break out into view in a blaze of light: to shine forth, to appear brilliantly
- no'amנֹעַםthe perceptible delightfulness of favor: the gracious, pleasant quality of someone or something that is a delight to experience
- charisχάριςfavor freely shown by someone who is free to give it, and that favor made real in a gift, a standing, or a power at work in the one who receives it
favorable1 word
favoritism1 word
favour1 word
- teḥinnahתְּחִנָּהa humble plea for favor: an earnest request that someone in power grant grace or mercy.
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- favor shown: the grace or mercy that someone grants.
- teḥinnahתְּחִנָּהa humble plea for favor: an earnest request that someone in power grant grace or mercy.
fawn1 word
fear20 words
- phobeōφοβέωto fear: to be gripped by fear, whether dread of a threat or reverent awe before God
- yareיָרֵאto be afraid, to feel fear in the face of danger or threat.
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- to revere, to hold in awe; the posture of loyal devotion toward God or toward a legitimate authority.
- to be awesome, dreadful, or terrifying, said of the person, place, or act that inspires awe rather than the person who feels it.
- phobosφόβοςfear: the alarm or dread that grips a person in the face of danger, the supernatural, or overwhelming power
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- reverence: the respect and submission owed to God, and the deference owed to people in authority
- a cause of fear: a person or thing that makes others afraid, a threat or terror
- paḥadפַּחַדdread: overwhelming fear that grips a person or sweeps over a people, and by extension the dreadful thing that causes it
- yirahיִרְאָהfear: from raw dread of danger, through awe before the holy, to the reverent devotion to God that the Old Testament calls the beginning of wisdom.
feared1 word
fearful3 words
- yareיָרֵאGod-fearing: holding God in reverent awe, so that one lives faithfully and obediently
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- afraid: frightened of a threat or danger
- phoberosφοβερόςfearfulnot studied yet
- deilosδειλόςcowardly: a shameful loss of nerve that is really a failure of faith, not the ordinary feeling of being afraid
- yareיָרֵאGod-fearing: holding God in reverent awe, so that one lives faithfully and obediently
fearful thing1 word
fearing1 word
fearlessly1 word
feast11 words
- mo'edמוֹעֵדan appointment fixed in advance: a set time, a sacred festival, the place where God arranged to meet His people, an agreed gathering or signal, or the fixed moment of the end
- shatahשָׁתָהto drink: to take liquid in through the mouth
- heortēἑορτήa religious festival: one of Israel's appointed sacred feasts, kept at its set time each year
- ḥagחַגa religious festival: an appointed, recurring day or season of communal worship and rejoicing before God
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- a festal sacrifice: the offering or victim brought to God at a festival
- mishtehמִשְׁתֶּהa feast: a celebration centered on food and especially drinking, held to mark a joyful occasion
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- drink: a beverage, or one's allotted portion of something to drink
feast with1 word
fed1 word
fed beast1 word
fee1 word
fee for divination1 word
feeble1 word
feebleness1 word
feed10 words
- ra'ahרָעָהto tend a flock: to lead grazing animals out, guard them, and bring them to food and water
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- to keep company with someone: to associate with a person as a friend or companion
- poimainōποιμαίνωto act as a shepherd toward: to feed, guard, lead and govern those in one's charge
- kulכּוּלto provide for and keep someone alive: to supply food and support so a person or people can survive.
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- to contain or hold a quantity: to have room enough to keep something inside.
- to bear up under something overwhelming: to be able to endure or withstand it.
- to measure out a quantity: to gauge how much something amounts to.
- boskōβόσκωto put animals out to feed: to keep a grazing herd supplied with food, or, of the herd, to be out eating
- trephōτρέφωto keep a living thing alive and growing by supplying its food: to feed, and so also to support, nurse, raise, or fatten
- ra'ahרָעָהto tend a flock: to lead grazing animals out, guard them, and bring them to food and water
feeding place1 word
feel2 words
feet2 words
Felix1 word
fell asleep1 word
fell at his feet1 word
- prospiptōπροσπίπτωto fall down at someone's feet: to go to the ground in front of a person, out of fear, gratitude, or urgent need
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- to beat against something: of wind and water striking a building
- prospiptōπροσπίπτωto fall down at someone's feet: to go to the ground in front of a person, out of fear, gratitude, or urgent need
fell down before1 word
- prospiptōπροσπίπτωto fall down at someone's feet: to go to the ground in front of a person, out of fear, gratitude, or urgent need
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- to beat against something: of wind and water striking a building
- prospiptōπροσπίπτωto fall down at someone's feet: to go to the ground in front of a person, out of fear, gratitude, or urgent need
felling1 word
fellow6 words
- plēsionπλησίονneighbor: any fellow human being one is called to love as oneself
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- near, close by: right next to a place
- re'aרֵעַthe other person you are associated with: a friend, a fellow member of your community, or simply the other party, with the closeness left to the setting.
- metochosμέτοχοςsomeone who holds a share in the same thing as others: a partner, or a person who has come to have a real part in what is shared
- ḥaverחָבֵרa companion or partner: someone joined to another by a shared bond, a common undertaking, or an alliance.
- amitעָמִיתfellow: a member of your own community, the peer who is bound to you by the same obligations
- plēsionπλησίονneighbor: any fellow human being one is called to love as oneself
fellow believer1 word
fellow citizen1 word
fellow countryman2 words
fellow disciple1 word
fellow elder1 word
fellow jew1 word
fellow prisoner1 word
fellow servant1 word
fellow slave1 word
fellow soldier1 word
fellow worker1 word
fellowship2 words
fellowship offering1 word
felt compassion1 word
female3 words
female goat1 word
female mule1 word
female servant2 words
feminine1 word
fence3 words
ferment1 word
- ḥamarחָמַרto foam up: to churn hard enough to froth and boil over
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- to coat something with tar: to seal it with bitumen so water cannot get in
- ḥamarחָמַרto foam up: to churn hard enough to froth and boil over
fertile1 word
fertile land1 word
- karmelכַּרְמֶלfertile country: land whose defining quality is that it grows things richly, as against forest or desert
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- fresh grain: newly ripened kernels still in the ear, the earliest edible stage of a harvest
- karmelכַּרְמֶלfertile country: land whose defining quality is that it grows things richly, as against forest or desert
fervent2 words
fervently1 word
fester1 word
festival2 words
- heortēἑορτήa religious festival: one of Israel's appointed sacred feasts, kept at its set time each year
- ḥagחַגa religious festival: an appointed, recurring day or season of communal worship and rejoicing before God
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- a festal sacrifice: the offering or victim brought to God at a festival
Festival of booths1 word
Festival of dedication1 word
Festus1 word
fetch1 word
fetter3 words
- pedēπέδηfetternot studied yet
- ziqahזֵקchains: the metal restraints put on a prisoner or a captive
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- burning missiles: flaming shafts or brands that a person shoots or carries
- kevelכֶּבֶלfetternot studied yet
fetters3 words
- neḥoshetנְחֹשֶׁתcopper or bronze: the metal itself, its products, and what its hardness symbolizes
- moserמוֹסֵרa bond: the strap, rope, or shackle that ties something down, and so any hold that keeps a person or a nation in servitude
- ziqahזֵקchains: the metal restraints put on a prisoner or a captive
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- burning missiles: flaming shafts or brands that a person shoots or carries
fever2 words
few3 words
- oligosὀλίγοςsmall in quantity: few in number, little in amount, or brief in time or extent
- misparמִסְפָּרa number: the count or total you get when you add up how many of something there are
- matמַתmen, people: an old poetic word for a group of men or people, found almost only in the plural and mostly in set phrases
field8 words
- sadehשָׂדֶהa field: the land outside the settlement, from a plowed plot somebody owns to the untamed open country.
- agrosἀγρόςa piece of land outside the town: a field, the open country, or the land a person owns there.
- chōraχώραa bounded stretch of land: a region, the countryside, or a field, with the scale set by context
- ḥelqahחֶלְקָהa plot of ground: a distinct, marked-off piece of land, and by extension the share of land assigned to someone
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- smoothness: a smooth or slippery surface, and figuratively smooth, flattering speech intended to deceive
- chōrionχωρίονa bounded piece of ground: a plot, field, or estate, thought of as somebody's property
field worker1 word
fierce4 words
- marמַרbitter: sharp and unpleasant to the taste, and by extension anything that brings grief or hardship
- qashehקָשֶׁהhard in the sense of unyielding: a burden that will not let up, a manner that gives no ground, or a person who will not bend
- qashahקָשָׁהto be or become hard: too difficult to manage, harsh or heavy in force, or (of the heart and neck) stubbornly unwilling to yield
- azעַזmarked by overpowering force: strong or mighty, and, turned against someone, fierce, harsh, or brazen.
fierce anger1 word
fierce lion1 word
fierce wrath1 word
fiery2 words
fiery red1 word
fiery serpent1 word
- saraphשָׂרָףa venomous, burning serpent: a snake whose bite is remembered for a burning pain, and in Isaiah's poetry pictured as winged
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- one of the six-winged, burning beings that Isaiah saw standing above God's throne, crying out his holiness
- saraphשָׂרָףa venomous, burning serpent: a snake whose bite is remembered for a burning pain, and in Isaiah's poetry pictured as winged
fifteen1 word
fifteenth1 word
fifth3 words
fifth part1 word
fifty2 words
fig2 words
fig cake1 word
fig tree2 words
fight6 words
- polemeōπολεμέωto make war on someone: to attack an enemy in open, sustained conflict, and so to be locked in hostility with them.
- laḥamלָחַםto fight, do battle, wage war
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- to eat, feed on, consume
- agōnἀγώνa strenuous struggle: a hard, sustained contest against opposition, often carried on in public and pictured as an athletic match run toward a prize.
- agōnizomaiἀγωνίζομαιto contend with all your strength: to throw everything you have into a contest you mean to win
- strateuōστρατεύωto be a soldier on active duty: to serve in an army and keep up its campaign.
fight beasts1 word
fight god1 word
fighting1 word
figs1 word
figuratively1 word
figure6 words
- parabolēπαραβολήa comparison: a saying or story that teaches by setting one thing beside another, from a one-line proverb to a full narrative
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- a symbol or foreshadowing: something visible that stands for and points ahead to a deeper reality
- tavnitתַּבְנִיתa model or figure of a thing's shape: either a plan to build from or a likeness of something that already exists
- tuposτύποςa formed impression and whatever corresponds to it: a mark, a model or pattern, an example to copy, or a foreshadowing of what is to come
- to'arתֹּאַרoutward form: the visible shape or figure of a body, and how it looks to the eye
- gizrahגִּזְרָהthe shape of a person's body as the eye takes it in: their figure or build.
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- the open ground marked off around Ezekiel's temple: a strip deliberately kept clear and off limits.
- parabolēπαραβολήa comparison: a saying or story that teaches by setting one thing beside another, from a one-line proverb to a full narrative
figurehead1 word
filigree1 word
fill10 words
- maleמָלֵאto be full; to fill; to reach completeness
- plēroōπληρόωto fill something up, so that it lacks nothing: a space with what occupies it, or a person with a quality that takes them over
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- to complete something so that it reaches its full extent: a stretch of time runs its course, a set number is reached, or a task is carried all the way through
- to fulfill: to bring a word, promise, prediction, or requirement to its full and intended reality
- plēthō, pimplēmiπλήθω, πίμπλημιto make completely full: to fill a space, flood a person with something, or bring a set time to its full measure
- dayדַּיa sufficient amount: as much as is needed to meet a need, a task, or a measure
- ravahרָוָהto saturate or be saturated with liquid: to drink one's fill, and to water something to overflowing
fill again1 word
fill up3 words
filled2 words
filled with3 words
- plērēsπλήρηςfull: holding all it can, so that nothing more will fit and nothing needed is missing
- gemōγέμωto be full: to be loaded with contents, describing what something already holds rather than the act of filling it
- mestosμεστόςfull: filled to the brim, said of a container holding something you can see, or of a person so steeped in a quality that it is what they are