STRONGS NUMBER H3374


Word Summary
yirah: a fear
Original Word: יִרְאָה
Transliteration: yirah
Phonetic Spelling: (yir-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a fear
Meaning: fear, reverence
Strong's Concordance
dreadful, exceedingly, fearfulness

Feminine of yare'; fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence -- X dreadful, X exceedingly, fear(-fulness).

see HEBREW yare'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3374. yirah

יִרְאָהnoun feminine fear; — ׳ירEzekiel 30:13 6t.; construct יִרְאַתGenesis 20:11 27t.; suffix יִרְאָתִיJeremiah 32:40; יִרְאָתוֺExodus 20:20; יִרְאָֽתְךָJob 4:6 3t.; יִרְאָתֶ֑ךָPsalm 5:8 2t.; —

1 fear, terror Isaiah 7:25; Ezekiel 30:13; ׳י גְדוֺלָהgreat fear Jonah 1:10, 16; "" מַּחַדDeuteronomy 2:25; "" רעד(הׅPsalm 2:11; 55:6.

2 a terror = object of terror, "" גֹּבַהּEzekiel 1:18 (strike out Co).

3 fear of God, reverence, piety אֱלֹהִים יִרְאַתGenesis 20:11 (E), 2 Samuel 23:3; Nehemiah 5:15; ׳יר שַׁדַּיJob 6:14; ׳יר אֱלֹהֵינוּNehemiah 5:9; ׳יר יהוה2 Chronicles 19:9; Isaiah 11:3; 33:6; Psalm 34:12; Proverbs 10:27; 14:26-27, 15:16; 19:23; 22:4; 23:17; "" the knowledge (of God) 1:29; 2:5; Isaiah 11:2; is the beginning of wisdom Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 9:10, and knowledge 1:7; the instruction of wisdom 15:33, is to hate evil 8:13, and it involves departing from evil 16:6; ׳י אֲדֹנָי‎ is wisdom Job 28:28; יִרְאָה‎ is defined by context 15:4; with suffixes these are usually object, fear of him Exodus 20:20 (E), of thee Psalm 5:8; 90:11; 119:38; Isaiah 63:17, of me Jeremiah 32:40, but subject, thy fear (i.e. thy religion) Job 4:6; 22:4.

4 יהוֺה יִרְאַתPsalm 19:10 the fear of ׳י‎ = the law as revered.