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# יָגֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3025

**be afraid** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be afraid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3025/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָגֹר: vb. be afraid, fear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3025/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be afraid, fear (Ph. in n.pr. יגר אשמן = he feareth Eshmun; Arabic وَجِرَ metuens cavit, Frey; LagBN 26. 30; cf. III. גּוּר)— Pf. 2 ms. יָגֹרְתָּ Dt 28:60; יָגֹרְתִּי 9:19 + 3 times;—be afraid, sq. מִפְּנֵי before, of; of wrath of י׳ Dt 9:19; of diseases of Egypt 28:60; fear, sq. acc. Jb 3:25; 9:28 ψ 119:39.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I am afraid of (2); I was afraid (1); I was afraid of (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.28/#tree)

יָגֹ֥רְתִּי כָל־עַצְּבֹתָ֑י יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי־לֹ֥א תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.am.afraid.of all pains my I.know (dm).that not you will.acquit.me

*JPS 1917:* I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless.

[Psalms 119:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.39/#tree)

הַעֲבֵ֣ר חֶ֭רְפָּתִי אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָגֹ֑רְתִּי כִּ֖י מִשְׁפָּטֶ֣יךָ טוֹבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* take.away reproach my which I.am.afraid.of (dm) judgments your \[are\].good

*JPS 1917:* Turn away my reproach which I dread; for Thine ordinances are good.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3025.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3025/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).