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Strong's G5401 · Greek

φόβος

phobos · fob'-os

from a primary phebomai (to be put in fear); alarm or fright


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

φόβος (G5401)

47 φόβος , -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for יִרְאָה , also for פַּחַד , אֵימָה , etc. ;] in Hom., flight . That which causes flight, fear, dread, terror : Lk 1:12 , Ac 5:5 , I Ti 5:20 . I Jo 4:18 , al.; cogn. acc., φοβεῖσθαι φ. , Mk 4:41 , Lk 2:9 ; c. gen. obj., Jo 7:13 19:33 20:19 , He 2:5 , I Pe 3:14 (but cf. ICC , in l.); ἀπὸ ( τοῦ ) φ. , Mt 14:26 , Lk 21:26 ; εἰς φ. , Ro 8:15 ; μετὰ φόβου , Mt 28:8 ; φ. καὶ τρόμος (Lft., Notes , 172), I Co 2:3 , II Co 7:15 , Eph 6:5 , Phl 2:12 ; by meton., of that which causes fear, Ro 13:3 ; of reverential fear, Ro 13:7 , I Pe 1:17 2:18 3:2 , 15 ; τ. κυρίου , Ac 9:31 , II Co 5:11 (v. Field, Notes , 183); Χριστοῦ , Eph 5:21 ; θεοῦ , Ro 3:18 , II Co 7:1 SYN. : v.s. δειλία (and of. DCG , i, 381)

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