EXP: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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