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Strong's #3372: yare' (pronounced yaw-ray')

a primitive root; to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten:--affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), X see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yârê'

1) to fear, revere, be afraid

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to fear, be afraid

1a2) to stand in awe of, be awed

1a3) to fear, reverence, honour, respect

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be fearful, be dreadful, be feared

1b2) to cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe

1b3) to inspire reverence or godly fear or awe

1c) (Piel) to make afraid, terrify

2) (TWOT) to shoot, pour

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 334 times:

Psalms 40:3: "many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD."
Psalms 45:4: "and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible"
Psalms 46:2: "Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, be carried"
Psalms 47:2: "For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great over all"
Psalms 49:5: "Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity shall compass me about?"
Psalms 49:16: "Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, the glory of his house"
Psalms 52:6: "The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at"
Psalms 55:19: "Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God."
Psalms 56:3: "What time I am afraid, I will trust in"
Psalms 56:4: "in God I have put my trust; fear what flesh can do"
Psalms 56:11: "In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what can do"
Psalms 64:4: "at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not."
Psalms 64:9: "And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work for they shall wisely consider of his doing."
Psalms 65:5: " By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; of all the ends"
Psalms 65:8: "They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings and evening"
Psalms 66:3: "Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! of thy power shall thine enemies"
Psalms 66:5: "and see the works of God: he is terrible toward the children of men."
Psalms 67:7: "us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear"
Psalms 68:35: "O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel that giveth"
Psalms 72:5: " They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,"
Psalms 76:7: "Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand when once"
Psalms 76:8: "from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,"
Psalms 76:12: "He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings"
Psalms 86:11: "in thy truth: my heart to fear thy name."
Psalms 89:7: "to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about"
Psalms 91:5: "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow"
Psalms 96:4: "and greatly to be praised: is to be feared above all gods."
Psalms 99:3: "Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it"
Psalms 102:15: "So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, the kings of the earth"
Psalms 106:22: "Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by sea."
Psalms 111:9: "his covenant holy and reverend is his name."
Psalms 112:1: "ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly"
Psalms 112:7: "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart trusting"
Psalms 112:8: "His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until his desire upon his enemies."
Psalms 118:6: "The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man"
Psalms 119:63: "am a companion of all them that fear thy precepts."
Psalms 119:120: "My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments."
Psalms 130:4: "there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared."
Psalms 139:14: "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous and that my soul"
Psalms 145:6: "And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness."
Proverbs 3:7: "not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil."
Proverbs 3:25: "Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation"
Proverbs 14:2: "He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse despiseth"
Proverbs 24:21: "My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: not with"
Proverbs 31:21: "She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for her household"
Ecclesiastes 3:14: "any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear it, that men should fear before"
Ecclesiastes 5:7: "words but fear thou God."
Ecclesiastes 8:12: "with them that fear God, which fear before"
Ecclesiastes 8:13: "his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God."
Ecclesiastes 9:2: "as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath."









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