Words the Bible translates as awesome
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- yareיָרֵאto be awesome, dreadful, or terrifying, said of the person, place, or act that inspires awe rather than the person who feels it.
+2 more meanings
- to be afraid, to feel fear in the face of danger or threat.
- to revere, to hold in awe; the posture of loyal devotion toward God or toward a legitimate authority.
- deḥalדְּחַלto fear: to hold a standing dread of someone powerful, and (of a thing) to be dreadful to look at
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