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Jonah 1:5
“Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.” (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
- יִּֽירְא֣וּ — 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.