Fear | יָרֵא (Hebrew), φόβος (Greek) | Noun

Etymology and Semantic Analysis The term ‘fear’ in the Bible is primarily translated from the Hebrew word ‘ירא’ (yare’) in the Old Testament and the Greek ‘φόβος’ (phobos) in the New Testament. In Hebrew, ‘ירא’ encompasses both fear in the sense of terror and reverence or awe, particularly in the context of fear of God. […]