UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: φόβος; -ου

Related lemmas: φοβέομαι

Sense 1: fear

Semantic entry: 25.251

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Fear, Terror, Alarm

Definition: a state of severe distress, aroused by intense concern for impending pain, danger, evil, etc., or possibly by the illusion of such circumstances

Notes: In a number of languages there is no noun-like word for ‘fear.’ Accordingly, expressions containing such a noun in Greek must often be restructured so that the corresponding semantic unit may be expressed by a verb. Therefore, instead of ‘fear,’ one may have expressions such as ‘be afraid’ or ‘to fear.’ Instead of ‘fears within’ (RV CO2 7:5 · LV CO2 7:5 · Read together CO2 7:5), one may translate ‘in our hearts we were afraid.’

MAT 14:26: RV MAT 14:26 · LV MAT 14:26 · Read together MAT 14:26

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OET-RV MAT 14:26

26 When his apprentices saw him coming over the lake, they were worried, thinking it was a ghost, and yelling out in fear.

OET-LV MAT 14:26

26 And the apprentices/followers having _seen him walking on the sea were _disturbed saying, that It _is a_ghost, and they _cried _out in the fear.

MAT 28:4: RV MAT 28:4 · LV MAT 28:4 · Read together MAT 28:4

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OET-RV MAT 28:4

4 The guards at the tomb shook with fear when they saw him and then they fainted.

OET-LV MAT 28:4

4 And the ones guarding were _shaken from the fear of _him, and were _become as dead men.

All 33 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 14:26 · RV MAT 28:4 · RV MAT 28:8 · LV MAT 14:26 · LV MAT 28:4 · LV MAT 28:8 · Read together MAT 14:26 · Read together MAT 28:4 · Read together MAT 28:8

MRK: RV MRK 4:41 · LV MRK 4:41 · Read together MRK 4:41

LUK: RV LUK 1:12 · RV LUK 1:65 · RV LUK 2:9 · RV LUK 5:26 · RV LUK 7:16 · RV LUK 8:37 · RV LUK 21:26 · LV LUK 1:12 · LV LUK 1:65 · LV LUK 2:9 · LV LUK 5:26 · LV LUK 7:16 · LV LUK 8:37 · LV LUK 21:26 · Read together LUK 1:12 · Read together LUK 1:65 · Read together LUK 2:9 · Read together LUK 5:26 · Read together LUK 7:16 · Read together LUK 8:37 · Read together LUK 21:26

JHN: RV JHN 7:13 · RV JHN 19:38 · RV JHN 20:19 · LV JHN 7:13 · LV JHN 19:38 · LV JHN 20:19 · Read together JHN 7:13 · Read together JHN 19:38 · Read together JHN 20:19

ACT: RV ACT 5:5 · RV ACT 5:11 · RV ACT 19:17 · LV ACT 5:5 · LV ACT 5:11 · LV ACT 19:17 · Read together ACT 5:5 · Read together ACT 5:11 · Read together ACT 19:17

ROM: RV ROM 8:15 · RV ROM 13:7 · LV ROM 8:15 · LV ROM 13:7 · Read together ROM 8:15 · Read together ROM 13:7

CO1: RV CO1 2:3 · LV CO1 2:3 · Read together CO1 2:3

CO2: RV CO2 7:5 · RV CO2 7:11 · RV CO2 7:15 · LV CO2 7:5 · LV CO2 7:11 · LV CO2 7:15 · Read together CO2 7:5 · Read together CO2 7:11 · Read together CO2 7:15

EPH: RV EPH 6:5 · LV EPH 6:5 · Read together EPH 6:5

PHP: RV PHP 2:12 · LV PHP 2:12 · Read together PHP 2:12

TI1: RV TI1 5:20 · LV TI1 5:20 · Read together TI1 5:20

HEB: RV HEB 2:15 · LV HEB 2:15 · Read together HEB 2:15

PE1: RV PE1 3:14 · LV PE1 3:14 · Read together PE1 3:14

JN1: RV JN1 4:18 · LV JN1 4:18 · Read together JN1 4:18

JDE: RV JDE 1:23 · LV JDE 1:23 · Read together JDE 1:23

REV: RV REV 11:11 · RV REV 18:10 · RV REV 18:15 · LV REV 11:11 · LV REV 18:10 · LV REV 18:15 · Read together REV 11:11 · Read together REV 18:10 · Read together REV 18:15

Sense 2: something to be feared

Semantic entry: 25.254

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Fear, Terror, Alarm

Definition: the occasion or source of fear

Notes: φόβος in the sense of ‘source of fear’ is essentially a causative, so that RV ROM 13:3 · LV ROM 13:3 · Read together ROM 13:3 may often be rendered as ‘for the rulers do not cause those who do good to fear but cause those who do what is bad to fear.’

ROM 13:3: RV ROM 13:3 · LV ROM 13:3 · Read together ROM 13:3

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OET-RV ROM 13:3

3 because rulers don’t evoke fear in people doing good, just those doing evil. Oh, so you don’t want to be afraid of the authorities? Then do good, and you’ll receive praise from them instead,

OET-LV ROM 13:3

3 For/Because the rulers not are a_fear the to _good work, but the to _evil.
And you _are _wanting not to _be _fearing the authority?
The good be _practicing, and you _will _be _having praise from him.

Sense 3: reverence, awe

Semantic entry: 53.59

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Worship, Reverence

Definition: profound respect and awe for deity

ACT 2:43: RV ACT 2:43 · LV ACT 2:43 · Read together ACT 2:43

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OET-RV ACT 2:43

43 They were serious in their learning about God, and the missionaries did many miracles and signs of God’s power in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and all the people wanted to be right with God.

OET-LV ACT 2:43