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# פָּחַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6342

**dread** — used 25 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

dread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6342/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּחַד: vb. dread, be in dread, in awe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6342/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dread, be in dread, in awe (NH Hithp. (rare), Ecclus 41:12 Imv. פחד על fear for; 𝔗 פַּחְדָּא n.);— Pf. 3 ms. פָּחַד ψ 119:161, וּפ׳ consec. Is 19:16; 60:5; 1 s. פָּחַדְתִּי Jb 3:25, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִפְחָ֑ד Is 19:17; 2 ms. תִּפְחָ֑ד Dt 28:67 +, etc.;— be in dread, abs. Dt 28:66; Is 12:2; 33:14; 44:8, 11 ψ 78:53; Pr 3:24; לֹא פ׳ Je 36:24 sign of callousness; c. acc. cogn. פַּחַד Dt 28:67; Jb 3:25 ψ 14:5 = 53:6; c. מִן pers. Is 19:37 Jb 23:15 ψ 27:1 (‖ יָרֵא), cf. 119:161, and (c. מִפְּנֵי) Is 19:16; c. עַל rei Je 33:9 (+ רָֽגְזוּ); c. אֶל, pregn., turn in dread to each other Je 36:16, submitting to י׳ Ho 3:5 Mi 7:17 (‖ יָרֵא). be in awe (at י׳’s favour), abs., Is 60:5. be in great dread, Impf. 2 ms. וַתְּפַחֵד Is 51:13, c. מִפְּנֵי rei; Pt. abs. מְפַחֵד Pr 28:14 deeply dreading (sc. sin). Pf. 3 ms. הִפְחִיד Jb 4:14 filled my bones with dread.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: they fear (2); they were afraid (2); they will be in dread (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 14:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.14.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.14.5/#tree)

שָׁ֤ם ׀ פָּ֣חֲדוּ פָ֑חַד כִּֽי־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בְּד֣וֹר צַדִּֽיק׃

*Word for word:* there they.fear a.fear (dm) God \[is\].with a.generation righteous

*JPS 1917:* There are they in great fear; for God is with the righteous generation.

[Job 4:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.14/#tree)

פַּ֣חַד קְ֭רָאַנִי וּרְעָדָ֑ה וְרֹ֖ב עַצְמוֹתַ֣י הִפְחִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* fear it happened.to.me and trembling and the.multitude my.bones my it.caused.to.tremble

*JPS 1917:* Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6342.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6342/): 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).