yirah (fear) · Rightly

Meaning

Fear, terror, fearingfear, terror · awesome or terrifying thing (object causing fear) · fear (of God), respect, reverence, piety · revered

How it's translated

fear of 18
in fear of 5
and fear of 3
fear 3
a fear 2
fear his 1
and fear your 1
fear your 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Proverbs 14
Psalms 8
Isaiah 6
Job 5
Nehemiah 2
Ezekiel 2

13 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Exodus 20:20And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Deuteronomy 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
2 Chronicles 19:9And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

All 45 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 20:11
Exodus 1: 20:20
Deuteronomy 1: 2:25
2 Samuel 1: 23:3
2 Chronicles 1: 19:9
Nehemiah 2: 5:9 5:15
Job 5: 4:6 6:14 15:4 22:4 28:28
Psalms 8: 2:11 5:7 19:9 34:11 55:5 90:11 111:10 119:38
Proverbs 14: 1:7 1:29 2:5 8:13 9:10 10:27 14:26 14:27 15:16 15:33 16:6 19:23 22:4 23:17
Isaiah 6: 7:25 11:2 11:3 29:13 33:6 63:17
Jeremiah 1: 32:40
Ezekiel 2: 1:18 30:13
Jonah 2: 1:10 1:16

Hebrew dictionary

יִרְאָה yirah · fear

1) fear, terror, fearing 1a) fear, terror 1b) awesome or terrifying thing (object causing fear) 1c) fear (of God), respect, reverence, piety 1d) revered

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “fear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FEAR, noun

[See the Verb.]

A painful emotion or passion excited by an expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger. fear expresses less apprehension than dread, and dread less than terror and fright.
Anxiety; solicitude.
The cause of fear
The object of fear“Except the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me” Genesis 31:42

All definitions and other forms of “fear”

Something set or hung up to terrify wild animals, by its color or noise. Isaiah 24:17 Jeremiah 48:43
In scripture, fear is used to express a filial or a slavish passion.“I will put my fear in their hearts” Jeremiah 32:40
The worship of God.“I will teach you the fear of the Lord” Psalms 34:11
The law and word of God.“The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever” Psalms 19:9
Reverence; respect; due regard.“Render to all their dues; fear to whom fear” Romans 13:7

FEAR, verb transitive

[Latin vereor.]

To feel a painful apprehension of some impending evil; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude.
To reverence; to have a reverential awe; to venerate.“This do, and live:for I fear God” Genesis 42:18
To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach by fear or by a scarecrow. [This seems to be the primary meaning, but now obsolete.]

FEAR, verb intransitive

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

“But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” 2 Corinthians 11:3

FEAR, noun

A companion. [Not in use. See Peer.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.