ἔκφοβος
ékphobos · G1630 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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very frightened, terrified, very much afraid
Pertaining to being extremely afraid
ExamplesMark 9:6 For he did not know how to reply; for they became terrified.
Hebrews 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἔντρομος éntromos · G1790 · trembling, quivering, shaking
- Adjective describing trembling from fear, closely parallel to ἔκφοβος with similar intensive quality of terror; both appear in contexts of extreme fright (cf. Acts 7:32, 16:29, Heb 12:21).
- δειλός deilós · G1169 · cowardly, coward
- Adjective denoting fearfulness or timidity, though typically less intensive than ἔκφοβος and often with connotations of ongoing character rather than momentary terror.
In the other Testament 2 words
- בָּעַת bâʻath · H1204 · to torment, to overwhelm
- Hebrew verb expressing sudden terror or fright, a common translation equivalent for the semantic field of intense fear/terror that ἔκφοβος denotes.
- חָתַת châthath · H2865 · to burst, to crack, to break
- Hebrew verb for being dismayed or terrified, describing the state of overwhelming fear that matches the intensive quality of ἔκφοβος.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Very frightened, terrified, very much afraid25.256
- Used in Mark 9:6, of the disciples' terror at the transfiguration, and in Hebrews 12:21, quoting Moses' own admission that he was terrified and trembling at the sight on Mount Sinai.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκφοβον, stricken with fear or terror, exceedingly frightened, terrified: Mk 9:6; Heb…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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