Strong's #3374: yir'ah (pronounced yir-aw')
feminine of 3373; fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence:--X dreadful, X exceedingly, fear(-fulness).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yir'âh
1) fear, terror, fearing
1a) fear, terror
1b) awesome or terrifying thing (object causing fear)
1c) fear (of God), respect, reverence, piety
1d) revered
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H3373
Usage:
This word is used 45 times:
Genesis 20:11: "Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place;"
Exodus 20:20: "to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin"
Deuteronomy 2:25: "will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole"
2 Samuel 23:3: "men must be just, ruling in the fear of God."
2 Chronicles 19:9: "And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear faithfully, and with a perfect"
Nehemiah 5:9: "ye ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach"
Nehemiah 5:15: "not I, because of the fear of God."
Job 4:6: "Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness"
Job 6:14: "pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear"
Job 15:4: "Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest before God."
Job 22:4: "Will he reprove thee for fear thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?"
Job 28:28: "And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart"
Psalms 2:11: "Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice"
Psalms 5:7: "into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple."
Psalms 19:9: " The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: of the LORD are true"
Psalms 34:11: "ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear"
Psalms 55:5: " Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed"
Psalms 90:11: "knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,"
Psalms 111:10: " The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good have all they that do"
Psalms 119:38: "thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear."
Proverbs 1:7: " The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools wisdom and instruction."
Proverbs 1:29: "they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:"
Proverbs 2:5: "Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find of God."
Proverbs 8:13: " The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and the evil way,"
Proverbs 9:10: " The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge is understanding."
Proverbs 10:27: " The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years shall be shortened."
Proverbs 14:26: " In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children a place of refuge."
Proverbs 14:27: " The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart of death."
Proverbs 15:16: "Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great and trouble"
Proverbs 15:33: " The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before is humility."
Proverbs 16:6: "and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear men depart from evil."
Proverbs 19:23: " The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; be visited with evil."
Proverbs 22:4: "By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and life."
Proverbs 23:17: "envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day"
Isaiah 7:25: "come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth"
Isaiah 11:2: "and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;"
Isaiah 11:3: "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge of his eyes, neither"
Isaiah 29:13: "and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is"
Isaiah 33:6: "of thy times, of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure."
Isaiah 63:17: "from thy ways, and hardened from thy fear? from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake,"
Jeremiah 32:40: "from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not"
Ezekiel 1:18: "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full round about them four."
Ezekiel 30:13: "a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt."
Jonah 1:10: "Then were the men exceedingly afraid, afraid, and said unto hast thou done"
Jonah 1:16: "Then the men feared feared the LORD exceedingly, a sacrifice"
