φόβος (fόbos) — fear / something to be feared / reverence

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’ (OET CO2 7:5), one may translate ‘in our hearts we were afraid.’

Show passage in OET: MAT 14:26

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.

Show passage in OET: MAT 28:4

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.

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All 33 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 14:26 · OET MAT 28:4 · OET MAT 28:8

MRK: OET MRK 4:41

LUK: OET LUK 1:12 · OET LUK 1:65 · OET LUK 2:9 · OET LUK 5:26 · OET LUK 7:16 · OET LUK 8:37 · OET LUK 21:26

JHN: OET JHN 7:13 · OET JHN 19:38 · OET JHN 20:19

ACT: OET ACT 5:5 · OET ACT 5:11 · OET ACT 19:17

ROM: OET ROM 8:15 · OET ROM 13:7

CO1: OET CO1 2:3

CO2: OET CO2 7:5 · OET CO2 7:11 · OET CO2 7:15

EPH: OET EPH 6:5

PHP: OET PHP 2:12

TI1: OET TI1 5:20

HEB: OET HEB 2:15

PE1: OET PE1 3:14

JN1: OET JN1 4:18

JDE: OET JDE 1:23

REV: OET REV 11:11 · OET REV 18:10 · OET 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 OET 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.’

Show passage in OET: ROM 13:3

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.

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Sense 3: reverence, awe

Semantic entry: 53.59

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Worship, Reverence

Definition: profound respect and awe for deity

Show passage in OET: ACT 2:43

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