Dread
פַּחְדָּהStrong’s H6345pachdah (pach-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pachdah is the Hebrew word usually translated “awe of me”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.”
Meaning
- Dread, fear, awe, religious awe
How it's translated
- awe of me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פַּחְדָּה pachdah · dread
dread, fear, awe, religious awe
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.