[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A4%D7%97%D7%93/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [פ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/pe/)‎ / פַּחַד‎

# פַּחַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6343

**dread** — used 49 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/1508/6343/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּ֫חַד: n.m. dread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6343/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 11:7 dread;—פ׳ abs. Gn 31:42 +, cstr. 1 S 11:7 +, sf. פַּחְדְּךָ Dt 2:25 ψ 119:120, פַּחְדּוֹ Jb 13:11 1 Ch 14:17, etc.; pl. פְּחָדִים Jb 15:21:— dread, פ׳ י׳, i.e. before י׳, often (not always) terrifying, unfitting for action, †Is 2:10, 19, 21; 1 S 11:7; 2 Ch 14:13; 17:10, so פ׳ אֱלֹהִים †20:29, c. sf. Jb 13:11 ψ 119:120 trembleth for dread of thee; c. genit. obj. Isr., †Dt 2:25 (‖ יִרְאָה), 11:25 (‖ מוֹרָא), ψ 105:38 Est 8:17; 9:2, פ׳ אוֹיֵב †ψ 64:2, of individual †1 Ch 14:17; Est 9:3; c. genit. obj. rei Pr 1:33; abs., in gen., Ex 15:16 (song; ‖ אֵימָ֫תָה), Jb 4:14 (‖ רְעָדָה), Je 30:5 (‖ קוֹל חֲרָדָה) +; as acc. cogn. c. פָּחַד ψ 14:5 + (v. פָּחַד); c. genit. subj. †Pr 1:26, 27 (both ‖ אֵיד) Dt 28:67. = object of dread †ψ 31:12; 36:2, פ׳ אֵלַי Jb 31:23; פַּחַד פָּחַדְתִּי †Jb 3:25; מִקּוֹל הַפַּחַד †Is 24:18 sound of the disaster, for מִפְּנֵי הַפּ׳ of orig. Je 48:44, but קוֹל פְּחָדִים †Jb 15:21 = a sound of terrors; פ׳ פִּתְאֹם 22:10; Pr 3:25. as design. dei †פ׳ יִצְחָק Gn 31:42 (‖ אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם), so v 53 (‖ id.; both E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 36 of its verses cited, 1 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: dread (16); the dread (11); fear (6).

## 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.

[Psalms 91:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.5/#tree)

לֹא־תִ֭ירָא מִפַּ֣חַד לָ֑יְלָה מֵ֝חֵ֗ץ יָע֥וּף יוֹמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.be.afraid from.\[the\] dread of.night from an.arrow \[which\].it.will.fly by.day

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6343.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6343/): 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).