Words the Bible translates as respect
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- phobosφόβοςreverence: the respect and submission owed to God, and the deference owed to people in authority
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- fear: the alarm or dread that grips a person in the face of danger, the supernatural, or overwhelming power
- a cause of fear: a person or thing that makes others afraid, a threat or terror
- merosμέροςa part of a whole: a piece, share, region, or side, as set against the entirety
- entrepōἐντρέπωto let another person's standing weigh on you enough to change what you do: to respect, to defer to
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- to pull someone up short with the sting of being in the wrong, or to be pulled up short that way
- hadarהָדַרto treat someone as great, and show it: to honor a person by what you visibly do in their presence, or to be arrayed in splendor yourself.
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- swollen ground: the humps and ridges of rough terrain that have to be flattened before anyone can pass.
- euschēmosunēεὐσχημοσύνηthe presentable dignity a private part is given by being covered: seemliness, modest decorum
- massoמַשֹּׂאrespectnot studied yet
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