מְגוֹרַה
mᵉgôwrah · H4034 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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fear, terror
State in which humans experience a strong fear that certain things might happen to them
ExamplesPsalm 34:4 I sought the LORD and He answered me, And rescued me from all my fears.
Proverbs 10:24 What the wicked fears will come upon him, But the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Isaiah 66:4 So I will choose their punishments And bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. Instead, they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- רָשָׁעwicked 1
- יmy 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
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 3 words
- פַּחַד pachad · H6343 · trembling, terror, awe
- פַּחַד is a common Hebrew noun for fear/dread, closely parallel to מְגוֹרַה. Both can denote terror or fearful apprehension, though פַּחַד is more frequent and may emphasize sudden dread.
- אֵימָה ʼêymâh · H367 · terror, dread, fierce anger
- אֵימָה denotes dread or terror, often with connotations of overwhelming or paralyzing fear. It shares the semantic field with מְגוֹרַה as both express states of fear.
- יִרְאָה yirʼâh · H3374 · fear
- יִרְאָה is the most common Hebrew noun for fear, encompassing both terror and reverential awe. While it can denote the same emotion as מְגוֹרַה, it has broader semantic range including religious fear/reverence.
Contrasting words 2 words
- בִּטָּחוֹן biṭṭâchôwn · H986 · confidence, hope
- בִּטָּחוֹן denotes assurance, trust or security, the opposite state to fear (מְגוֹרַה): where מְגוֹרַה is apprehension, בִּטָּחוֹן is assurance.
- בֶּטַח beṭach · H983 · confident, unsuspecting, securely
- בֶּטַח denotes security, safety or assurance, a state opposed to fear; as a noun it represents the opposite condition from מְגוֹרַה.
In the other Testament 2 words
- φόβος phóbos · G5401 · fear, something to be feared
- φόβος is the standard Greek noun for fear/terror, serving as the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew מְגוֹרַה in its sense of 'fear.' Both denote the emotion or state of being afraid.
- δειλία deilía · G1167 · cowardice, timidity
- δειλία denotes timidity or fearfulness as a disposition, overlapping with מְגוֹרַה in contexts where fear is viewed as a condition or trait rather than momentary emotion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- מְגוֹרַה means fear, as in Psalm 34:4's deliverance "from all my fears," placing it among terms of dread and anxiety.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4034. megorah [מְגוֺרָה] noun feminine fear, terror — construct מְגוֺרַת Pro 10:24;…
[מְגוֺרָה] noun feminine fear, terror — construct מְגוֺרַת Pro 10:24; plural suffix מְגוּרוֺתַי Psa 34:5, מְגוּרֹתָם Isa 66:4 (on these forms with וּ compare Ges§ 27. 3. R.1, & 85. 48); — terror (= thing dreaded) Psa 34:5; Pro 10:24; Isa 66:4.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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