Words the Bible translates as afraid
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- yareיָרֵאafraid: frightened of a threat or danger
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- God-fearing: holding God in reverent awe, so that one lives faithfully and obediently
- ḥatatחָתַתto be broken, and so to be dismayed: to come apart under pressure, whether a thing that shatters or a person whose courage gives way; and to do this to someone else, to shatter or terrify them.
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
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- to hurry, act in haste, or do something rashly
- ḥaradחָרַדto tremble with sudden fear: the involuntary shudder of a startled or terrified person, and (in causative form) to make someone tremble like that
- deilosδειλόςcowardly: a shameful loss of nerve that is really a failure of faith, not the ordinary feeling of being afraid
- emphobosἔμφοβοςafraidnot studied yet
- da'agדָּאַגto worry: to carry an anxious, unsettled concern about what may happen, whether to someone you love or from a danger you can already see
- deḥalדְּחַלto fear: to hold a standing dread of someone powerful, and (of a thing) to be dreadful to look at
- yagorיָגֹרto dread: to be gripped by fear of a specific, looming threat
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