Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3373

יָרֵא

ya.re · “afraid”

Used 54 times across 14 books

Definition

fearing, reverent, afraid

Where it appears

Genesis

2

Exodus

1

Deuteronomy

3

Judges

2

1 Kings

1

Job

3

Psalms

27

Proverbs

4

Ecclesiastes

2

Isaiah

2

Jeremiah

2

Daniel

1

Jonah

3

Malachi

1

In the text

Genesis 22:12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.Genesis 32:12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.Exodus 18:21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:Deuteronomy 7:19The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.Deuteronomy 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.Deuteronomy 25:18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.Judges 7:3Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.Judges 7:10But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:1 Kings 18:3And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

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