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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Fear of God
• Fear
Scofield Reference Index
• Fear of the Lord
Thompson Chain Reference
• Needless Fear
• Guilty Fear
• Godly Fear
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The Topic Concordance
• Fear
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Fear, Unholy
• Fear, Godly
Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Fear
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Fear
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Fears
• Fear of God
• Fear of Death
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Fear of the Lord the
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Persecution: Not to Be Feared
• Fear of Sin
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Fear of Isaac
• Fear
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Fearfulness
• Fear
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Fear (2)
• Fear
King James Dictionary
• Fearfulness
• Fearful
• Feared
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Why, Impious Herod, Vainly Fear
• Fear
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Fear
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Fear, Fearful, Fearfulness
• Fear
Webster Dictionary
• Od-Fearing
• Fearing
• Fearfulness
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Fear
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Fear
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Fear of God
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Fear
• Fear
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Fear of God
• Fear of Man
Lexicons
• ܕ݁ܰܚܽܘܠܬ݂ܳܢܳܐ
• ܕ݁ܳܚܶܠ
• ܕ݁ܶܚܠܬ݂ܳܐ
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• ἀφόβως
• δειλία
• δειλιάω
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• אֵימָה , אֵמָה
• גוּרּ גוּרּ, , גוּרּ
• דְּאָגָה
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• Fear

a painful apprehension of danger. It is sometimes used for the object of fear; as, "the fear of Isaac," that is, the God whom Isaac feared, Genesis 31:42 . God says that he will send his fear before his people, to terrify and destroy the inhabitants of Canaan. Job speaks of the terrors of God, as set in array against him, Job 6:4; the Psalmist, that he had suffered the terrors of the Lord with a troubled mind, Psalms 88:15 . Fear is used, also, for reverence: "God is greatly to be feared" in the assembly of his saints. This kind of fear, being compatible with confidence and love, is sometimes called filial fear; while "the fear which hath torment," being the result of conscious guilt, and the anticipation of punishment, is removed by that "love" to God which results from a consciousness of our reconciliation to him.

The filial fear of God is a holy affection, or gracious habit, wrought in the soul by God, Jeremiah 32:40 , whereby it is inclined and enabled to obey all God's commandments, even the most difficult, Genesis 22:12; Ecclesiastes 12:13; and to hate and avoid evil, Nehemiah 5:15; Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 15:6 . Slavish fear is the consequence of guilt; it is a judicial impression from the sad thoughts of the provoked majesty of the heaven; it is an alarm within that disturbs the rest of a sinner. Fear is put for the whole worship of God: "I will teach you the fear of the Lord,"

Psalms 34:11; I will teach you the true way of worshipping and serving God. It is likewise put for the law and word of God: "The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever," Psalms 19:9 . The law is so called, because it is the object, the cause, and the rule of the grace of holy fear.