To dread
פָּחַדStrong’s H6342pachad (pa-chad)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pachad is the Hebrew word usually translated “were afraid”, “dread” and “feared”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:”
Meaning
- To fear, tremble, revere, dread, be in awe or dread(Qal) · (Piel) to be in great dread · (Hiphil) to cause to dread
How it's translated
- they were afraid 2
- and you will be in dread 1
- you will dread 1
- i feared 1
- it caused to tremble 1
- and i may be in dread 1
- they fear 1
- will i be in dread 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Psalms 5
- Job 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Proverbs 2
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
- Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- Job 4:14Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
- Job 23:15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
- Psalms 14:5There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
- Psalms 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Hebrew dictionary
פָּחַד pachad · to dread
1) to fear, tremble, revere, dread, be in awe or dread 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be in dread 1a2) to be in awe 1b) (Piel) to be in great dread 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to dread
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dread” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DREAD, noun
Dred. [Latin, to dread; fearful; to tremble. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to shrink.]
- Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger.
- Awe; fear united with respect.
- Terror.“Shall not his dread fall on you” Job 13:11
- The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded.“Let him be your dread” Isaiah 8:13
All definitions and other forms of “dread”
DREAD, adjective
- Exciting great fear or apprehension.
- Terrible; frightful.
- Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
DREAD, verb transitive
To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.
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.