H3372 · יָרֵא
yârêʼ · yaw-ray' · fear, afraid
H3372 (yârêʼ, pronounced yaw-ray') is the Hebrew word יָרֵא in Strong’s dictionary: to fear. It appears 315 times in 306 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- יָרֵא (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- yârêʼ
- Pronunciation
- yaw-ray'
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- Definition
- to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
- Rendered in the KJV
- affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), [idiom] see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
315 occurrences in 306 verses (312 with English words of their own, 3 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “be afraid” ×72
- “fear” ×41
- “feared” ×13
- “and awesome” ×12
- “and fear” ×7
- “to fear” ×7
- “afraid” ×6
- “worship” ×6
By book
Genesis 18 · Exodus 12 · Leviticus 8 · Numbers 3 · Deuteronomy 36 · Joshua 10 · Judges 6 · Ruth 1 · 1 Samuel 21 · 2 Samuel 9 · 1 Kings 6 · 2 Kings 14 · 1 Chronicles 6 · 2 Chronicles 7 · Nehemiah 11 · Job 9 · Psalms 45 · Proverbs 4 · Ecclesiastes 5 · Isaiah 24 · Jeremiah 18 · Lamentations 1 · Ezekiel 4 · Daniel 3 · Hosea 1 · Joel 4 · Amos 1 · Jonah 3 · Micah 1 · Habakkuk 2 · Zephaniah 4 · Haggai 2 · Zechariah 3 · Malachi 4
First 30 of 306 verses
- Genesis 3:10
- Genesis 15:1
- Genesis 18:15
- Genesis 19:30
- Genesis 20:8
- Genesis 21:17
- Genesis 26:7
- Genesis 26:24
- Genesis 28:17
- Genesis 31:31
- Genesis 32:7
- Genesis 35:17
- Genesis 42:35
- Genesis 43:18
- Genesis 43:23
- Genesis 46:3
- Genesis 50:19
- Genesis 50:21
- Exodus 1:17
- Exodus 1:21
- Exodus 2:14
- Exodus 3:6
- Exodus 9:30
- Exodus 14:10
- Exodus 14:13
- Exodus 14:31
- Exodus 15:11
- Exodus 20:20
- Exodus 34:10
- Exodus 34:30
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H3372.