Original Language Studio
Jonah 1:10
“Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- יִּֽירְא֤וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, 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.