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# יָרֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3373

**fearing** — used 63 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

fearing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3373/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָרֵא²: adj. verb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3373/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. verb. v. supr. Pt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fearing (22); \[those\] fearing (15); \[am\] fearing (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 128:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.4/#tree)

הִנֵּ֣ה כִי־כֵ֭ן יְבֹ֥רַךְ גָּ֗בֶר יְרֵ֣א יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* here! (dm) thus he.will.be.blessed a.man fearing (of).Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Behold, surely thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

[Psalms 115:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.13/#tree)

יְ֭בָרֵךְ יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַ֝קְּטַנִּ֗ים עִם־הַגְּדֹלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.will.bless \[those\].fearing (of).Yahweh (the) small with (the) great

*JPS 1917:* He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3373.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3373/): 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).