פַּחְדָּה
pachdâh · H6345 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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terror, awe, dread
Literally: trembling; hence: state in which humans experience a strong fear and a concern for their safety, usually accompanied by trembling
ExamplesJeremiah 2:19 “Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will punish you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to abandon the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord GOD of armies.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyou 1
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
- יִרְאָה yirʼâh · H3374 · fear
- יִרְאָה is the most common Hebrew noun for fear and could substitute for פַּחְדָּה in contexts denoting fear or terror, though יִרְאָה often carries connotations of reverence alongside fear.
- אֵימָה ʼêymâh · H367 · terror, dread, fierce anger
- אֵימָה denotes terror or dread and is semantically very close to פַּחְדָּה, both referring to overwhelming fear without requiring a cognate relationship.
- מוֹרָא môwrâʼ · H4172 · fear, awe, terror
- מוֹרָא expresses fear or terror and could serve as a near synonym for פַּחְדָּה in contexts of dread or fearful response.
In the other Testament 1 word
- φόβος phóbos · G5401 · fear, something to be feared
- φόβος is the standard Greek noun for fear/terror and serves as the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew פַּחְדָּה in the semantic domain of fear and dread.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- פַּחְדָּה denotes fear, an anxious dread.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6345. pachdah [מַּחְדָּה] noun feminine dread, religious awe, suffix אֵלַיִךְ…
[מַּחְדָּה] noun feminine dread, religious awe, suffix אֵלַיִךְ מַּחְדָּתִי לֹא Jer 2:19 no awe of me (came) unto thee.
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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