English Bible words starting with F
544 meanings beginning with F, in alphabetical order. This is page 5 of 6. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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formed1 word
formed thing1 word
former5 words
- rishonרִאשׁוֹןfirst: the one out in front, whether in a sequence, in time gone by, or in rank
- qedemקֶדֶםeast, or what lies in front: the direction of the sunrise, the eastern side of a place, and the lands and peoples that way
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- ancient time: the remote past, the days of old, the earliest times reaching back to the world's beginning
- archaiosἀρχαῖοςfrom the beginning: belonging to the time when the thing in view started, whether that is the far past or simply the first days of something recent
- qadmoniקַדְמֹנִיformer or ancient: belonging to the distant past, and so also the people who lived long ago
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- eastern: on the side toward the sunrise, used above all of the east gate and of the eastern sea
- qadmahקַדְמָהformernot studied yet
former rain1 word
- morehמוֹרֶהa teacher: the one who instructs another and points out the way he should go
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- the early rain: the first rains of autumn, which soften the baked ground so that plowing and sowing can begin
- morehמוֹרֶהa teacher: the one who instructs another and points out the way he should go
formerly4 words
- panehפָּנֶהthe face: the front of a person's head, the look it carries, and the presence of the one who turns it toward you
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- the front or surface of a thing: the outer side it turns toward you
- the position words built on this noun: before, in front of, away from, and so because of
- shilshomשִׁלְשֹׁםin the past, previously; the second half of the set phrase "yesterday and the day before," which means "formerly" or "as things used to be."
- temolתְּמוֹלthe recent past: "yesterday," and by extension "previously, up to now"
- teḥillahתְּחִלָּהthe beginning of something: its first point or earliest stage; in adverb form, "first," "at first," or "formerly."
- panehפָּנֶהthe face: the front of a person's head, the look it carries, and the presence of the one who turns it toward you
formlessness1 word
fornicate2 words
fornication4 words
- porneiaπορνείαsexual wrongdoing: sexual activity outside the bounds the Old Testament law sets for marriage
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- spiritual unfaithfulness: turning from God to idols, pictured as a wife's adultery or a prostitute's trade
- taznutתַּזְנוּתharlotry: repeated, brazen acts of promiscuous unfaithfulness, pictured as a wife who sells herself to anyone
- zanunזְנוּנִיםfaithless sexual conduct treated as a settled condition: harlotry used literally once, and far more often as a picture of breaking faith with God
- zenutזְנוּתpromiscuous sexual immorality, used above all as a picture of unfaithfulness to God
- porneiaπορνείαsexual wrongdoing: sexual activity outside the bounds the Old Testament law sets for marriage
fornicator1 word
forsake7 words
- kataleipōκαταλείπωto leave behind: to go away from someone or something, or to let it stay behind, remain, or be given up
- azavעָזַבto leave: to let go of someone or something, whether by simply walking away or by abandoning what one was bound to hold onto
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- to restore or repair, as in setting a wall or building back in order
- egkataleipōἐγκαταλείπωto abandon someone: to walk away and leave a person stranded in the very trouble they needed you for
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- to leave someone or something remaining: to let a survivor or a remainder be left when the rest is gone
- raphahרָפָהto go slack: for a grip, a hand, or strength to loosen and give way, or to make it do so, ranging from losing heart to letting go to leaving alone
- natashנָטַשׁto abandon: to walk away from someone or something one is bound to keep
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- to let lie: to release a field or a matter and leave it alone
- to spread out: to scatter, deploy, or let loose over an area
forsaken1 word
fort1 word
forthwith1 word
fortification1 word
fortified2 words
- batsarבָּצַרmade inaccessible: fortified, walled off, or otherwise put beyond reach
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- to gather grapes: to cut the ripe clusters from the vine at the vintage
- to cut off, curb: to bring a proud spirit low
- metsurahמְצוּרָהfortifications: the walls, ramparts, and earthworks that make a town defensible, and the matching works an army raises around a city it is shutting in
- batsarבָּצַרmade inaccessible: fortified, walled off, or otherwise put beyond reach
fortified city2 words
fortify1 word
- batsarבָּצַרmade inaccessible: fortified, walled off, or otherwise put beyond reach
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- to gather grapes: to cut the ripe clusters from the vine at the vintage
- to cut off, curb: to bring a proud spirit low
- batsarבָּצַרmade inaccessible: fortified, walled off, or otherwise put beyond reach
fortress9 words
- mivtsarמִבְצָרa fortified place: a walled town, or the defensive stronghold that guards it, built to hold out against attack
- ma'ozמָעוֹזa place or source of safety and strength: a fortress to shelter behind, or the protection a person leans on for security
- armonאַרְמוֹןa fortified great house: the citadel or palace of a king or the powerful, at once a grand residence and a defensible stronghold
- matsudahמְצוּדָהa stronghold: a fortified or, more often, a rugged natural height that keeps its occupant safe from attack.
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- a hunter's net or snare: a trap that closes on prey, and so on a person who cannot escape.
- misgavמִשְׂגָּבa place set so high it cannot be reached, and so a place of perfect safety
fortunate2 words
Fortunatus1 word
fortune2 words
fortune-teller1 word
- ananעָנַןto bring clouds over the earth: to gather cloud cover across the sky
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- to practice soothsaying: to work as one particular kind of banned diviner, whose technique the Bible never describes
- ananעָנַןto bring clouds over the earth: to gather cloud cover across the sky
fortunes1 word
- shevutשְׁבִיתthe restoration of fortunes: God turning a ruined situation back to well-being
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- captivity: the state of being carried off as a prisoner
- shevutשְׁבִיתthe restoration of fortunes: God turning a ruined situation back to well-being
forty2 words
forty years1 word
Forum1 word
foul1 word
foul thing1 word
foul weed1 word
found2 words
- themelioōθεμελιόωto foundnot studied yet
- yasadיָסַדto lay the foundation of something, and so to set it up firmly and make it last
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- to take counsel together against someone; to band together and plot
foundation14 words
- themeliosθεμέλιοςfoundation: the load-bearing base laid first under a building, and by extension the basis on which anything is established.
- edenאֶדֶןa socket or base: the heavy footing into which an upright post or pillar is set so it stands firm
- yesodיְסוֹדfoundation: the lowest supporting part of a built thing, the base it rests on or rises from
- makhonמָכוֹןa fixed, established place: the settled spot where something firmly rests or dwells
- katabolēκαταβολήa founding: the laying down of something as its base or beginning, used in the New Testament only in the set phrase "the foundation of the world," a fixed term for creation
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- the depositing of seed: the laying down of seed that begins new life, the reproductive image behind the phrase "conceive" at Hebrews 11:11
foundations1 word
founder1 word
fountain4 words
- ayinעַיִןthe eye: the organ of sight, and by extension how a person sees, judges, wants, and is looked upon.
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- a spring or well: a place where water comes up out of the ground.
- pēgēπηγήa spring: a natural source of water rising from the ground, and by extension the source from which something flows
- mayanמַעְיָןa spring: a place where fresh water rises up out of the ground
- maqorמָקוֹרa spring: the living source from which water flows, and by extension the source or origin from which anything (life, blood, tears, cleansing) pours out.
- ayinעַיִןthe eye: the organ of sight, and by extension how a person sees, judges, wants, and is looked upon.
four3 words
four hundred1 word
four months1 word
four thousand1 word
four-footed1 word
fourfold2 words
foursquare1 word
fourteen1 word
fourteenth1 word
fourth8 words
- arbaאַרְבַּעfour: the cardinal number 4
- tetartosτέταρτοςfourthnot studied yet
- revi'iרְבִיעִיfourth: the ordinal number, the one that comes after the third; also a fourth part, one quarter.
- revaרֶבַעfourthnot studied yet
- revi'ayרְבִיעִיfourthnot studied yet
fourth part1 word
fowl3 words
fowler3 words
fowls2 words
fox2 words
fracture1 word
- sheverשֶׁבֶרa breaking: the shattering of something whole, from a snapped bone to the collapse of a whole nation
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- the interpretation of a dream: the unlocking of what a dream means
- sheverשֶׁבֶרa breaking: the shattering of something whole, from a snapped bone to the collapse of a whole nation
fragment3 words
fragrance1 word
fragrant oil1 word
fragrant powder1 word
frailty1 word
frame7 words
- qereshקֶרֶשׁa board: a flat, upright plank of worked wood
- katartizōκαταρτίζωto put something into the sound, complete condition it ought to be in: to mend, restore, prepare, or fully equip
- misgeretמִסְגֶּרֶתa bordering frame: the rim, molding, or set-in side panels running around a piece of furniture or equipment
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- a fortified enclosed place: a stronghold or fastness people are shut inside and forced to come out of
- yetserיֵצֶרsomething formed: a shaped object, or the human creature God shaped from dust
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- the bent of the heart: what a person forms inside, their settled disposition, plans, or intentions
- shalavשַׁלָבִּיםframenot studied yet
frankincense2 words
fraud2 words
free7 words
- eleutherosἐλεύθεροςfree: belonging to no master and bound by no claim, whether in legal standing (not a slave) or in relation to a law, tie, or power
- naqahנָקָהto be clear in a legal sense: free, innocent, or unpunished, and (when someone declares it) to acquit or leave unpunished
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- to be emptied out or swept clean: stripped bare of inhabitants or contents
- naqiנָקִיinnocent: free from guilt or from a claim against you, and so not liable to be punished or held responsible.
- ḥophshiחׇפְשִׁיfree: released from slavery, obligation, or bondage, and so no longer owned or bound
- natarנָתַרto loosen or untie what holds something fast, and so to let a person or thing go free
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- to leap or spring: to jump off the ground, or to jolt suddenly, and so to make something else jump
free gift2 words
free of charge1 word
free woman1 word
freed1 word
Freedmen1 word
freedom5 words
- eleutherosἐλεύθεροςfree: belonging to no master and bound by no claim, whether in legal standing (not a slave) or in relation to a law, tie, or power
- eleutheriaἐλευθερίαfreedom: the state of being held by no master and no claim, and in the New Testament above all the release Christ gives from sin and from the law's hold
- derorדְּרוֹרa proclaimed release: a public announcement that people enslaved for debt go free and that forfeited family land goes back to the households it came from.
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- free-flowing: of myrrh, the resin that seeps out of the tree on its own.
- ḥophshutחׇפְשִׁיתfreedomnot studied yet
- ḥuphshahחֻפְֿשָׁהfreedomnot studied yet
freely4 words
- ḥinnamחִנָּםfor nothing: an act done with nothing paid for it, nothing to warrant it, or nothing gained by it
- dōreanδωρεάνfor nothing: with nothing given in exchange, whether that is a price, a reason, or a result
- nedavahנְדָבָהa gift or act offered freely and of one's own accord, not owed or required; above all a freewill offering brought to God out of willingness rather than obligation
- akōlutōsἀκωλύτωςfreelynot studied yet
freeman1 word
freewill offering1 word
frequently1 word
fresh7 words
- neosνέοςnew: recently come into being, fresh, as opposed to what is old or former
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- young: in the early stage of life, or younger than another
- kainosκαινόςnew in kind: fresh and unlike anything before it, not merely recent in time
- ḥadashחָדָשׁnew: recently made or come into being, or fresh and never seen before
- ra'ananרַעֲנָןluxuriant, green, and fresh: full of the moist, living vigor of a well-watered tree in full leaf
- laḥלַחfreshnot studied yet
- neosνέοςnew: recently come into being, fresh, as opposed to what is old or former
fresh ears of grain1 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
fresh oil1 word
fresh-plucked1 word
fret1 word
friend10 words
- philosφίλοςa friend: someone joined to another by chosen affection, loyalty, or shared allegiance rather than by blood.
- ahavאָהֵבto love: to feel and act on deep emotional attachment, loyal commitment, or strong desire, toward a person, God, or an object
- 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.
- alluphאַלּוּףa close friend: a trusted, intimate companion bound to someone by long familiarity
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- a tribal chief: the head of a clan or people, especially one of the ruling chieftains of Edom
- a tame ox or other domestic animal: a docile, well-fed beast accustomed to people
- hetairosἑταῖροςfriendnot studied yet
friendly1 word
friendship2 words
frighten4 words
- ptoeōπτοέωto frightennot studied yet
- ḥaradחָרַדto tremble with sudden fear: the involuntary shudder of a startled or terrified person, and (in causative form) to make someone tremble like that
- deḥalדְּחַלto fear: to hold a standing dread of someone powerful, and (of a thing) to be dreadful to look at
- pturomaiπτύρομαιto frightennot studied yet
fringe2 words
- kraspedonκράσπεδονthe tassel worn on the corner of the outer cloak, which the Law of Moses commanded Israelites to wear; more broadly, the edge or fringe of a garment
- tsitsitצִיצִתa hanging protrusion that catches the eye: a blossom-shaped tassel of threads worn at a garment's corner, or by extension a lock of hair
frog2 words
from4 words
from a distance1 word
from above1 word
- anōthenἄνωθενfrom above: from a higher place, and so from heaven or from God
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- from the beginning: from far back in time, from the start of a matter
- again: over again, starting afresh from the top
- anōthenἄνωθενfrom above: from a higher place, and so from heaven or from God
from afar2 words
from all sides1 word
from childhood1 word
from elsewhere1 word
from far away1 word
from forefathers1 word
from heaven1 word
from here1 word
from now on1 word
from place to place1 word
from that place1 word
from the beginning1 word
- anōthenἄνωθενfrom the beginning: from far back in time, from the start of a matter
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- from above: from a higher place, and so from heaven or from God
- again: over again, starting afresh from the top
- anōthenἄνωθενfrom the beginning: from far back in time, from the start of a matter
from the top1 word
- anōthenἄνωθενagain: over again, starting afresh from the top
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- from above: from a higher place, and so from heaven or from God
- from the beginning: from far back in time, from the start of a matter
- anōthenἄνωθενagain: over again, starting afresh from the top
from thence1 word
from there2 words
from where2 words
- pothenπόθενfrom where? whence?: a question word asking the origin, source, or cause of something
- hothenὅθενfrom which place: a word pointing back to a physical starting point that something has left or come from
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- for which reason, therefore: a word that draws a conclusion from something already said