Words the Bible translates as reverence
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.
- phobeōφοβέωto fear: to be gripped by fear, whether dread of a threat or reverent awe before God
- 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
- entrepōἐντρέπωto pull someone up short with the sting of being in the wrong, or to be pulled up short that way
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- to let another person's standing weigh on you enough to change what you do: to respect, to defer to
- 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.
- moraמוֹרָאthe fear a mighty figure inspires in others, and so also the one who is feared or the deed that produces the fear
- eulabeiaεὐλάβειαreverencenot studied yet
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