יָרֵא

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from יָרֵא; fearing; morally, reverent; afraid, fear (-ful).

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1. Genesis 22:12 יְרֵ֤א ye.Re' · Describes something

   And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

2. Genesis 32:11 יָרֵ֤א ya.Re' · An -ing word: simple action

   Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.

3. Genesis 42:18 יָרֵֽא׃ ya.Re' · An -ing word: simple action

   And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

4. Exodus 9:20 הַיָּרֵא֙ hai.ya.Re' · An -ing word: simple action

   He that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

5. Exodus 18:21 יִרְאֵ֧י yir.'Ei · Describes something

   Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

6. Deuteronomy 7:19 יָרֵ֖א ya.Re' · Describes something

   the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so shall Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.

7. Deuteronomy 20:8 הַיָּרֵא֙ hai.ya.Re' · Describes something

   And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as his heart.

8. Judges 7:3 יָרֵ֣א ya.Re' · Describes something

   Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

9. Judges 7:10 יָרֵ֥א ya.Re' · Describes something

   But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp:

10. 1 Samuel 23:3 יְרֵאִ֑ים ye.re.'Im · Describes something

    And David's men said unto him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

11. 1 Kings 18:3 יָרֵ֛א ya.Re' · An -ing word: simple action

    And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly:

12. 1 Kings 18:12 יָרֵ֥א ya.Re' · An -ing word: simple action

    And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

13. 2 Kings 4:1 יָרֵ֖א ya.Re' · An -ing word: simple action

    Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

14. 2 Kings 17:32 יְרֵאִ֖ים ye.re.'Im · An -ing word: simple action

    So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

15. 2 Kings 17:33 יְרֵאִ֑ים ye.re.'Im · An -ing word: simple action

    They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

16. 2 Kings 17:34 יְרֵאִים֙ ye.re.'Im · An -ing word: simple action

    Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

17. 2 Kings 17:41 יְרֵאִים֙ ye.re.'Im · An -ing word: simple action

    So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

18. Job 1:1 וִירֵ֥א vi.Re' · Describes something

    There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

19. Job 1:8 יְרֵ֥א ye.Re' · Describes something

    And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.

20. Job 2:3 יְרֵ֥א ye.Re' · Describes something

    And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

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