מוֹרָא
môrâ
fear
Strong's H4172NounHebrewTWOT 907c

מוֹרָא (môrâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning fear. It appears 12 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4172).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 907c)

Range of meaning (TWOT 907c)fear; terror; reverence; object of reverence; awe-inspiring spectacle, deed; fearful; dread, terribleness
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מוֹרָא noun, masculine: fear

Strong's H4172 מוֹרָא: fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed
KJV:dread, (that ought to be) fear(-ed), terribleness, terror.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 907: יָרֵא yārēʾ — fear; be afraid, stand in awe of, reverence, honour; be fearful, dreadful, cause astonishment and awe, inspire reverence, godly fear, awe; make afraid, terrify; revere, frighten; affright, dread, fearfully, fearing, terrible…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 9:2Deuteronomy 4:34Jeremiah 32:21

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