# יִרְאָה (yirah)

Israeli respelling: yir-ah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3374. 42 Old Testament occurrences.

fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence

King James renderings: [idiom] dreadful, [idiom] exceedingly, fear(-fulness).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yirah-h3374

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 20:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/11) — And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
- [Exodus 20:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/20) — And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
- [Deuteronomy 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/25) — This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report…
- [2 Samuel 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/3) — The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
- [2 Chronicles 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/19/9) — And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
- [Nehemiah 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/9) — Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
- [Nehemiah 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/15) — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekel…
- [Job 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/6) — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- [Job 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/14) — To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- [Job 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/4) — Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- [Job 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/4) — Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
- [Job 28:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/28) — And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
- [Psalms 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/2/11) — Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
- [Psalms 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/5/7) — But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
- [Psalms 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/19/9) — The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
- [Psalms 34:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/34/11) — Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- [Psalms 55:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/5) — Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
- [Psalms 90:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/90/11) — Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- [Psalms 111:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/111/10) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
- [Psalms 119:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/38) — Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
- [Proverbs 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/7) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- [Proverbs 1:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/29) — For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
- [Proverbs 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/5) — Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
- [Proverbs 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/13) — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- [Proverbs 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/10) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
- [Proverbs 10:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/27) — The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
- [Proverbs 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/26) — In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- [Proverbs 14:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/27) — The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
- [Proverbs 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/16) — Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
- [Proverbs 15:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/33) — The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
- [Proverbs 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/6) — By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
- [Proverbs 19:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/23) — The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
- [Proverbs 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/4) — By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
- [Proverbs 23:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/17) — Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
- [Isaiah 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/25) — And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the…
- [Isaiah 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/2) — And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of know…
- [Isaiah 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/3) — And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove afte…
- [Isaiah 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/6) — And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
- [Isaiah 63:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/17) — O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thin…
- [Jeremiah 32:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/40) — And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their he…
- [Ezekiel 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/18) — As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
- [Ezekiel 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/13) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a pr…