Afraid
יָרֵאStrong’s H3373yare (ya-re)
Appears in 63 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yare is the Hebrew word usually translated “fearing”, “fearing him” and “afraid”. It appears in 63 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.”
Meaning
- Fearing, reverent, afraid
How it's translated
- fearing 32
- fearing him 8
- afraid 4
- to fearing him 4
- fearful 3
- o fearing 3
- and fearing 2
- for fearing you 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 28
- 2 Kings 5
- Proverbs 4
- Ecclesiastes 4
- Genesis 3
- Job 3
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 32:11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
- Genesis 42:18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
- Exodus 9:20He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
- 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.
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Hebrew dictionary
יָרֵא yare · afraid
fearing, reverent, afraid
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “afraid” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AFRA'ID, adjective
[The participle of affray.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.