Words the Bible translates as dread
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 13 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gurגּוּרto be afraid, to dread: to shrink back in fear before a person, a threat, or God
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- to live somewhere as a resident outsider: to settle for a time among people not your own, without owning the land or holding the rights of a native
- to assail, to stir up strife: to gather in hostility against someone, to attack
- 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.
- paḥadפָּחַדto tremble with dread: to be seized by sudden, body-shaking fear
- emahאֵימָהoverwhelming, paralyzing dread: a terror so heavy it can seem less like a feeling and more like a physical force that falls on a person or is sent against them.
- aratsעָרַץto be gripped by dread: to tremble in terror, to strike terror into others, or to hold in reverent awe
- moraמוֹרָאthe fear a mighty figure inspires in others, and so also the one who is feared or the deed that produces the fear
- ḥaradahחֲרָדָהtrembling brought on by fear: the shudder of terror that grips a body, a crowd, or the heart, and by extension the anxious trouble taken on another's behalf
- qutsקוּץto be sick of someone or something: to feel a revulsion built up past the point of bearing it, whether it comes out as disgust or as dread
- magorמָגוֹרterror: fear that has closed in from every direction, leaving nowhere to run
- yagorיָגֹרto dread: to be gripped by fear of a specific, looming threat
- ḥatחַתdread: fear laid on a creature that drains its will to stand and fight
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- shattered: broken, whether a weapon that snaps or a fighter whose nerve gives way
- paḥdahפַּחְדָּהdreadnot studied yet
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