Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
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Dreadful
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Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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יָרֵא
yârêʼ · yaw-ray'
5 times translated as this KJV form313 total Strong's occurrences
to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten
Strong's KJV usage: affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), × see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
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Strong's first: Genesis 28:17Strong's last: Malachi 4:5
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dᵉchal · deh-khal'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to slink, i.e. (by implication) to fear, or (causatively) be formidable
Strong's KJV usage: make afraid, dreadful, fear, terrible.
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Strong's first: Daniel 7:7Strong's last: Daniel 7:19
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yirʼâh · yir-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence
Strong's KJV usage: × dreadful, × exceedingly, fear(-fulness).
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 1:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 1:18
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pachad · pakh'-ad
1 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
Strong's KJV usage: dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.
Strong's first: Job 15:21Strong's last: Job 15:21
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H1763
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
H1763
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
H3372
And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
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dreadful
DREADFUL, adjective
1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as a dreadful storm, or dreadful night.
The great and dreadful day of the Lord. Malachi 4:5.
2. Awful; venerable.
How dreadful is this place. Genesis 48:1.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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