יִרְאָה yirah
Hebrew word for “fear” · Strong’s H3374 · used 45 times in 45 verses
Meaning
1) fear, terror, fearing;
How it is translated
Glosses given for yirah in context, with how often each is used:
- fear 42
- ¿ from fear 1
- like fear 1
- will be in the fear 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proverbs | 14 | 2.0 | |
| Psalms | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Isaiah | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Job | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Nehemiah | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Jonah | 2 | 2.9 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 1 more book.
Chapters where it is used most
Nehemiah 5 (2), Proverbs 1 (2), Proverbs 14 (2), Proverbs 15 (2), Isaiah 11 (2), Jonah 1 (2), Genesis 20 (1), Exodus 20 (1), Deuteronomy 2 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1)
Forms
- יראת 18
- ביראת 6
- יראה 5
- ויראת 3
- יראתו 1
- ויראתך 1
- יראתך 1
- המיראתך 1
- ביראה 1
- ביראתך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yirah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חׇכְמָה chokhmah “wisdom” 7
- דַּעַת daat “knowledge” 6
- בִּינָה binah “understanding” 3
- סוּר sur “to turn aside” 4
- עֲנָוָה anavah “humility” 2
- רַעַד raad “trembling” 2
- רַע ra “bad” 4
- חֶסֶד chesed “kindness” 3
- יָרֵא yare “to fear” 3
- הֶם hem “them” 4
- עַד ad “perpetuity” 2
- אֱמוּנָה emunah “faithfulness” 2
Key verses
The verses using yirah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 2 Samuel 23:3 — The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
- Nehemiah 5:15 — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea,…
- Job 28:28 — And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
- Psalms 19:9 — The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
- Psalms 34:11 — Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- Psalms 111:10 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his praise endureth for ever.
- Proverbs 1:7 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 8:13 — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- Proverbs 16:6 — By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
- Isaiah 11:2 — And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the…
- Isaiah 29:13 — Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,…
- Jeremiah 32:40 — And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they…
See all 45 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.