Limitless Word
יִרְאָהyirʼâh/yir-aw'/
HebrewH337443 occurrences (KJV)

fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence

KJV renders it: [idiom] dreadful, [idiom] exceedingly, fear(-fulness).

Where it appears

  • Gen 20:11Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
  • Exod 20:20Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
  • Deut 2:25Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.”
  • 2 Sam 23:3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
  • 2 Chr 19:9He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
  • Neh 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
  • Neh 5:15But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Job 4:6Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
  • Job 6:14“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
  • Job 15:4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
  • Job 22:4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
  • Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
  • Ps 2:11Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
  • Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
  • Ps 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
  • Ps 34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
  • Ps 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
  • Ps 111:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
  • Ps 119:38Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.
  • Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 1:29because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
  • Prov 2:5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
  • Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
  • Prov 9:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
  • Prov 10:27The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
  • Prov 14:26In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
  • Prov 14:27The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
  • Prov 15:16Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
  • Prov 15:33The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
  • Prov 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
  • Prov 19:23The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
  • Prov 22:4The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
  • Prov 23:17Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
  • Isa 7:25All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”
  • Isa 11:2Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
  • Isa 11:3His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
  • Isa 29:13The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
  • Isa 33:6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
  • Isa 63:17O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
  • Jer 32:40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
  • Ezek 1:18As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
  • Ezek 30:13Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.