Gematria of Fear
23 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “fear” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 762 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 23
- Occurrences
- 762
- Distinct values
- 20
The 23 Hebrew words rendered “fear”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
First appearance ·Genesis 3:10בראשית ג:יוָאִירָא
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather forhostility (as afraid)
First appearance ·Genesis 12:10בראשית יב:ילָגוּר
properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert
First appearance ·Genesis 8:10בראשית ח:יוַיָּחֶל
fearing; morally, reverent
First appearance ·Genesis 22:12בראשית כב:יביְרֵא
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
First appearance ·Genesis 31:42בראשית לא:מבוּפַחַד
fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence
First appearance ·Genesis 20:11בראשית כ:יאיִרְאַת
to be startled (by a sudden alarm); hence, to fear in general
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 28:66דברים כח:סווּפָֽחַדְתָּ
fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
First appearance ·Genesis 15:12בראשית טו:יבאֵימָה
to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 1:29דברים א:כטתַֽעַרְצוּן
fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed
First appearance ·Genesis 9:2בראשית ט:בוּמוֹרַאֲכֶם
a fright (objective or subjective)
First appearance ·Isaiah 31:9ישעיהו לא:טמִמָּגוֹר
to storm; by implication, to shiver, i.e. fear
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 32:17דברים לב:יזשְׂעָרוּם
commotion, restlessness (of a horse), crash (of thunder), disquiet, anger
First appearance ·Isaiah 14:3ישעיהו יד:גוּמֵרָגְזֶךָ
to slink, i.e. (by implication) to fear, or (causatively) be formidable
First appearance ·Daniel 2:31דניאל ב:לאדְּחִֽיל
concretely, crushed; also afraid; abstractly, terror
First appearance ·Genesis 9:2בראשית ט:בוְחִתְּכֶם
a fright; also a granary
First appearance ·Isaiah 66:4ישעיהו סו:דוּמְגֽוּרֹתָם
terror
First appearance ·Ecclesiastes 12:5קהלת יב:הוְחַתְחַתִּים
alarm (i.e. awe)
First appearance ·Jeremiah 2:19ירמיהו ב:יטפַחְדָּתִי
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of fear?
The Tanakh renders “fear” with 23 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ירא = 211, גור = 209, פחד = 92, and 18 more.
How do you say fear in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 23 Hebrew words for “fear”; the most frequent are ירא (yârêʼ), 383 times; גור (gûwr), 98 times; פחד (pachad), 74 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.