mora (fear) · Rightly

Meaning

Fear, reverence, terrorfear, terror · reverence · object of reverence · awe-inspiring spectacle or deed
Appoint terror (i.e.

How it's translated

and fear your 2
and by terrors 1
and by terror 1
the terror 1
terror 1
to the awesome one 1
fear its 1
fear your 1

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

Where it's used most

Deuteronomy 4
Psalms 2
Isaiah 2
Malachi 2
Genesis 1
Jeremiah 1

6 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 11:25There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Deuteronomy 26:8And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
Deuteronomy 34:12And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
Psalms 9:20Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalms 76:11Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

All 12 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 9:2
Deuteronomy 4: 4:34 11:25 26:8 34:12
Psalms 2: 9:20 76:11
Isaiah 2: 8:12 8:13
Jeremiah 1: 32:21
Malachi 2: 1:6 2:5

Hebrew dictionary

מוֹרָא mora · fear

1) fear, reverence, terror 1a) fear, terror 1b) reverence 1c) object of reverence 1d) awe-inspiring spectacle or deed Also means: mo.rah (מוֹרָה "fear" H4172B)

מוֹרָה morah · fear

appoint terror (i.e. some awe-inspiring exhibition of power) Another spelling of mo.ra (מוֹרָא "fear" H4172A)

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.