Lexical Summary yirah: a fear Original Word: יִרְאָהTransliteration: yirah Phonetic Spelling: (yir-aw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a fear Meaning: fear, reverence Strong's Concordance dreadful, exceedingly, fearfulness Feminine of yare'; fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence -- X dreadful, X exceedingly, fear(-fulness). see HEBREW yare' Brown-Driver-Briggs H3374. yirah יִרְאָה noun feminine fear; — ׳יר Ezekiel 30:13 6t.; construct יִרְאַת Genesis 20:11 27t.; suffix יִרְאָתִי Jeremiah 32:40; יִרְאָתוֺ Exodus 20:20; יִרְאָֽתְךָ Job 4:6 3t.; יִרְאָתֶ֑ךָ Psalm 5:8 2t.; — 1 fear, terror Isaiah 7:25; Ezekiel 30:13; ׳י גְדוֺלָה great fear Jonah 1:10, 16; "" מַּחַד Deuteronomy 2:25; "" רעד(הׅ Psalm 2:11; 55:6. 2 a terror = object of terror, "" גֹּבַהּ Ezekiel 1:18 (strike out Co). 3 fear of God, reverence, piety אֱלֹהִים יִרְאַת Genesis 20:11 (E), 2 Samuel 23:3; Nehemiah 5:15; ׳יר שַׁדַּי Job 6:14; ׳יר אֱלֹהֵינוּ Nehemiah 5:9; ׳יר יהוה2 Chronicles 19:9; Isaiah 11:3; 33:6; Psalm 34:12; Proverbs 10:27; 14:26-27, 15:16; 19:23; 22:4; 23:17; "" the knowledge (of God) 1:29; 2:5; Isaiah 11:2; is the beginning of wisdom Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 9:10, and knowledge 1:7; the instruction of wisdom 15:33, is to hate evil 8:13, and it involves departing from evil 16:6; ׳י אֲדֹנָי is wisdom Job 28:28; יִרְאָה is defined by context 15:4; with suffixes these are usually object, fear of him Exodus 20:20 (E), of thee Psalm 5:8; 90:11; 119:38; Isaiah 63:17, of me Jeremiah 32:40, but subject, thy fear (i.e. thy religion) Job 4:6; 22:4. 4 יהוֺה יִרְאַת Psalm 19:10 the fear of ׳י = the law as revered. |
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