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And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
Read in context →There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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yârêʼ · yaw-ray'
fearing; morally, reverent
Strong's KJV usage: afraid, fear (-ful).
Strong's first: Job 1:8Strong's last: Isaiah 50:10
Open full H3373 profile →phobéō · fob-eh'-o
to frighten, i.e. (passively) to be alarmed; by analogy, to be in awe of, i.e. revere
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (+ sore) afraid, fear (exceedingly), reverence.
Strong's first: Acts 10:22Strong's last: 1 John 4:18
Open full G5399 profile →yârêʼ · yaw-ray'
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).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 1:51Strong's last: Psalms 112:1
Open full H3372 profile →pâchad · paw-kkad'
to be startled (by a sudden alarm); hence, to fear in general
Strong's KJV usage: be afraid, stand in awe, (be in) fear, make to shake.
Strong's first: Proverbs 28:14Strong's last: Proverbs 28:14
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And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
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FEAR, noun [See the Verb.]
1. A painful emotion or passion excited by an expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger. fear expresses less apprehension than dread, and dread less than terror and fright. The force of this passion, beginning with the most moderate degree, may be thus expressed, fear dread, terror, fright. fear is accompanied with a desire to avoid or ward off the expected evil. fear is an uneasiness of mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.
FEAR is the passion of our nature which excites us to provide for our security, on the approach of evil.
2. Anxiety; solicitude.
The principal fear was for the holy temple.
3. The cause of fear
Thy angel becomes a fear
4. The object of fear
Except the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me. Genesis 31:42.
5. Something set or hung up to terrify wild animals, by its color or noise. Isaiah 24:17. Jeremiah 48:43.
6. In scripture, fear is used to express a filial or a slavish passion. In good men, the fear of God is a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience. This is filial fear
I will put my fear in their hearts. Jeremiah 32:39.
Slavish fear is the effect or consequence of guilt; it is the painful apprehension of merited punishment. Romans 8:15.
The love of God casteth out fear 1 John 4:1.
7. The worship of God.
I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Psalms 34:7.
8. The law and word of God.
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. Psalms 19:9.
9. Reverence; respect; due regard.
Render to all their dues; fear to whom fear Romans 13:7.
FEAR, verb transitive [Latin vereor.]
1. To feel a painful apprehension of some impending evil; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude. We fear the approach of an enemy or of a storm. We have reason to fear the punishment of our sins.
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Psa 23.
2. To reverence; to have a reverential awe; to venerate.
This do, and live:for I fear God. Genesis 42:18.
3. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach by fear or by a scarecrow. [This seems to be the primary meaning, but now obsolete.]
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey.
FEAR, verb intransitive To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3.
FEAR not, Abram:I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Gen 15.
FEAR, noun A companion. [Not in use. See Peer.]
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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