יָרֵא yârêʼ — fearing
Translated in the KJV as afraid, fear.
from H3372; fearing; morally, reverent.
yârêʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 6Perfect (qatal) 2Infinitive construct 1
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›