Original Language Studio
Genesis 9:2
“And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon 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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4172 · Hebrew
- Definition
- fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed
- Derivation
- or מֹרָא; or מוֹרָהxlit môrâh corrected to môwrâh; (Psalm 9:20), from H3372 (יָרֵא);
- KJV renderings
- dread, (that ought to be) fear(-ed), terribleness, terror.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מוֹרַאֲ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- כֶ֤ם — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 12 times in the Hebrew Bible.Deuteronomy 4:34Deuteronomy 11:25Deuteronomy 26:8Deuteronomy 34:12Psalms 9:21
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 מוֹרָא 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.