Words the Bible translates as fear
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 20 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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.
+2 more meanings
- 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.
- 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.
- moraמוֹרָאthe fear a mighty figure inspires in others, and so also the one who is feared or the deed that produces the fear
- deiliaδειλίαcowardice: a failure of nerve in which fear collapses into giving way
- 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
- magorמָגוֹרterror: fear that has closed in from every direction, leaving nowhere to run
- de'agahדְּאָגָהanxiety: the unsettled weight a person or a people carries about trouble that has not arrived yet
- 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
- 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
- ptoēsisπτόησιςfearnot studied yet
- megorahמְגוֹרָהfearnot studied yet
- megurahמְגוּרָהfearnot studied yet
- deosδέοςfearnot studied yet
- rahahרָהָהto fearnot studied yet
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