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# מְגוֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4034

**fear** — used 3 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

fear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4034/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְגוֹרָה: n.f. fear, terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4034/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fear, terror—cstr. מְגוֹרַת Pr 10:24; pl. sf. מְגוּרוֹתַי ψ 34:5, מְגוּרֹתָם Is 66:4 (on these forms with וּ cf. Ges§ 27. 3. R. 1. & 85, 48);—terror (= thing dreaded) ψ 34:5 Pr 10:24; Is 66:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fears (2); \[the\] fear (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.24/#tree)

מְגוֹרַ֣ת רָ֭שָׁע הִ֣יא תְבוֹאֶ֑נּוּ וְתַאֲוַ֖ת צַדִּיקִ֣ים יִתֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].fear of.a.wicked.\[person\] it it will.come.to.him and.\[the\] desire of.righteous.\[people\] someone.will.give

*JPS 1917:* The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; and the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

[Psalms 34:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.5/#tree)

דָּרַ֣שְׁתִּי אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה וְעָנָ֑נִי וּמִכָּל־מְ֝גוּרוֹתַ֗י הִצִּילָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.sought (et) Yahweh and he answered.me and from all fears my he delivered.me

*JPS 1917:* I sought the LORD, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4034.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4034/): 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).