FEAR

Hebrew-yirah Greek-phobos

The word FEAR in English has two principal meanings:

1) That apprehension of evil which normally either leads one to flee

or to fight.

2) That awe or reverence a man of sense feels in the presence of God,

and to a lesser extent in the presence of a king or other dread

authority.

A child feels the first of these in the presence of a cruel parent,

and the second before one who is good, but who also must be just.

There are 15 different Hebrew nouns which are rendered "fear" in the

KJV, but in the New Testament the Greek "phobos" is used in both

senses (Matt 14:26, and Rom 3:18).

For the two senses in the Old Testament see Psalm 31:13 and Proverbs

9:10.

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