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Exodus 1:17
“But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יָרֵאyârêʼ · yaw-ray'
H3372 · Hebrew
H3372 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), [idiom] see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּירֶ֤אןָ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 329 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:10Genesis 15:1Genesis 18:15Genesis 19:30Genesis 20:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יָרֵא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.