"Fear" in the Old Testament
According to the Strong's Concordance results on blueltterbible.org, the word "fear occurs 400 times in 385 verses in the KJV"
The first use in in Genesis 9:2, where just after the Great Flood ended, YHWH blesses Noah and his sons and tells them to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and He says "And the 'fear of you' and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered".
[*]words are shown in English style "forward", from "left to right", as opposed to "right to left", because that is how my art program renders Hebrew =)
The fourth and fifth times 'fear' occurs in the OT, Genesis 21:17 and 26:24, are both H3372 the prim. root verb yare'.
In Exodus 15:16 we see a third word for 'fear', H367.
According to Strong's, 'eymah is from the same as the adjective H366 'ayom, "terrible, dreadful". [from an unused root meaning "to frighten"] 'ayom occurs 3 times in the OT as the word 'terrible'
So far we have accounted for 1/3 of the uses of 'fear' in the KJ (296 out of 400).
Going through the chapters, all the following words from which 'fear' was translated, are either yare' or yir'ah, until we reach Deuteronomy 11:35 were the noun H6343, pachad, resurfaces; and Deuteronomy 28:66 and 67, where the root verb H6342, pachad, is used. Verse 67 also includes the noun H6343.
Moving forward, we see only H3772, yare', until Joshua 22:24, where H1674 emerges.
The next several verses are predominantly yare', with one instance of H3773, the adjective yare' from the verb yare'.
H6440, paniym, is listed as having variant spellings, פנים (Strong's and Gesenius) and פנה (Strong's)
H6440, paniym, comes from the primitive root verb H6437, panah, "to turn".
The next words appearing as 'fear' correspond primarily with H3372 yare', with a singular addition of H6343, pachad, in 1Samuel 11:7, and a resurgence of H6440, paniym, "face" in 1Samuel 21:10 "And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and when to Achish the king of Gath." and 1Samuel 23:26 where David and his men "made haste to get away for fear of Saul..".
Continuing to 1Chronicles 14:17 we see H6343, pachad, again, followed in 1Chronicles 16:30 by the primitive root verb H2342, chuwl in "Fear before Him, all the earth..".
Moving along, we see a majority of yare' or its nouns, with a couple "pachads" intermixed, until we come to Ezra 3:3 where the feminine noun 'eymah once again arises in "..they set the altar upon his bases; for fear [was] upon them because of the people of those countries..", and also, a little later, in Job 9:34 "Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear terrify me".
In Job 31:34 the primitive root verb H6206, 'arats, comes up.
H4712, morah', the first word from back in Genesis 9:2, interestingly reappears in Psalm 9:20.
Then it's back to business as usual with yare' words, and a sprinkle of pachad, until Psalm 31:13, where H4032 is used. "For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side.."
Moving through Psalms we see the usual yare' and pachad, until Psalm 48:6, where we see H7461. "Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail"
Chuwl pops up in Psalm 96:9, but the the presence of yare' and pachad continue in dominance through Psalms and into Proverbs, until we read Proverbs 10:24, where H4034, megowrah, appears.
Going forward, we see the typical yare' and pachad, while Proverbs 20:2 brings back H367, 'eymah.
In Proverbs 29:25 though, we see another new word, H2731, charadah.
H4172, mowra', makes another showing, along farther, in Isaiah 8:12 and 13. Isaiah also brings us to another new 'fear' word, H7267, in 14:3 "And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve".
H6206, 'arats, shows up in Isaiah as well, in 29:23; and H4032, magowr, in 31:9. Magowr also appears later in Jeremiah 6:25 and 20:10; whereas Jeremiah 35:11 shows twice the word H6440, paniym, "face". Paniym also shows up not long after, in Jeremiah 41:9; and Jeremiah 46:5 brings out H4032, magowr.
Pachad dominates the next several uses of 'fear' until Jeremiah 49:24 where we see yet another new 'fear' word, H7374, retet.
Going forward, magowr and paniym each are present, respectively in Jeremiah 49:29 and 50:16, followed by the now-well-known yare' words, until Daniel 6:26, where we see the appearance of an Aramaic verb, dechal.
After YHWH delivers Daniel from the lions' den, Dairus writes to all the people, nations, and languages, and in verse 26 states "I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for He [is] the living God.."
Continuing through the chapters, the usuals appear, then an instance of H1481, guwr.
The rest of the 'fear' words in the OT are yare', except for the book of Malachi, 1:6 and 2:5, where we see the first 'fear' word, H4172, mowra', make reappearances.
In all, there are 19 words translated 'fear' in the Old Testament KJ, which account for three-fourths of the total usages of the word 'fear' in the bible.
The first use in in Genesis 9:2, where just after the Great Flood ended, YHWH blesses Noah and his sons and tells them to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and He says "And the 'fear of you' and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered".
[*]words are shown in English style "forward", from "left to right", as opposed to "right to left", because that is how my art program renders Hebrew =)
The fourth and fifth times 'fear' occurs in the OT, Genesis 21:17 and 26:24, are both H3372 the prim. root verb yare'.
In Exodus 15:16 we see a third word for 'fear', H367.
According to Strong's, 'eymah is from the same as the adjective H366 'ayom, "terrible, dreadful". [from an unused root meaning "to frighten"] 'ayom occurs 3 times in the OT as the word 'terrible'
So far we have accounted for 1/3 of the uses of 'fear' in the KJ (296 out of 400).
Going through the chapters, all the following words from which 'fear' was translated, are either yare' or yir'ah, until we reach Deuteronomy 11:35 were the noun H6343, pachad, resurfaces; and Deuteronomy 28:66 and 67, where the root verb H6342, pachad, is used. Verse 67 also includes the noun H6343.
Moving forward, we see only H3772, yare', until Joshua 22:24, where H1674 emerges.
The next several verses are predominantly yare', with one instance of H3773, the adjective yare' from the verb yare'.
H6440, paniym, is listed as having variant spellings, פנים (Strong's and Gesenius) and פנה (Strong's)
H6440, paniym, comes from the primitive root verb H6437, panah, "to turn".
The next words appearing as 'fear' correspond primarily with H3372 yare', with a singular addition of H6343, pachad, in 1Samuel 11:7, and a resurgence of H6440, paniym, "face" in 1Samuel 21:10 "And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and when to Achish the king of Gath." and 1Samuel 23:26 where David and his men "made haste to get away for fear of Saul..".
Continuing to 1Chronicles 14:17 we see H6343, pachad, again, followed in 1Chronicles 16:30 by the primitive root verb H2342, chuwl in "Fear before Him, all the earth..".
Moving along, we see a majority of yare' or its nouns, with a couple "pachads" intermixed, until we come to Ezra 3:3 where the feminine noun 'eymah once again arises in "..they set the altar upon his bases; for fear [was] upon them because of the people of those countries..", and also, a little later, in Job 9:34 "Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear terrify me".
In Job 31:34 the primitive root verb H6206, 'arats, comes up.
H4712, morah', the first word from back in Genesis 9:2, interestingly reappears in Psalm 9:20.
Then it's back to business as usual with yare' words, and a sprinkle of pachad, until Psalm 31:13, where H4032 is used. "For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side.."
Moving through Psalms we see the usual yare' and pachad, until Psalm 48:6, where we see H7461. "Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail"
Chuwl pops up in Psalm 96:9, but the the presence of yare' and pachad continue in dominance through Psalms and into Proverbs, until we read Proverbs 10:24, where H4034, megowrah, appears.
Going forward, we see the typical yare' and pachad, while Proverbs 20:2 brings back H367, 'eymah.
In Proverbs 29:25 though, we see another new word, H2731, charadah.
H4172, mowra', makes another showing, along farther, in Isaiah 8:12 and 13. Isaiah also brings us to another new 'fear' word, H7267, in 14:3 "And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve".
H6206, 'arats, shows up in Isaiah as well, in 29:23; and H4032, magowr, in 31:9. Magowr also appears later in Jeremiah 6:25 and 20:10; whereas Jeremiah 35:11 shows twice the word H6440, paniym, "face". Paniym also shows up not long after, in Jeremiah 41:9; and Jeremiah 46:5 brings out H4032, magowr.
Pachad dominates the next several uses of 'fear' until Jeremiah 49:24 where we see yet another new 'fear' word, H7374, retet.
Going forward, magowr and paniym each are present, respectively in Jeremiah 49:29 and 50:16, followed by the now-well-known yare' words, until Daniel 6:26, where we see the appearance of an Aramaic verb, dechal.
After YHWH delivers Daniel from the lions' den, Dairus writes to all the people, nations, and languages, and in verse 26 states "I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for He [is] the living God.."
Continuing through the chapters, the usuals appear, then an instance of H1481, guwr.
The rest of the 'fear' words in the OT are yare', except for the book of Malachi, 1:6 and 2:5, where we see the first 'fear' word, H4172, mowra', make reappearances.
In all, there are 19 words translated 'fear' in the Old Testament KJ, which account for three-fourths of the total usages of the word 'fear' in the bible.
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