# H4172 מוֹרָא

מוֹרָא (môwrâʼ), Strong’s H4172: fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed KJV: dread, (that ought to be) fear(-ed), terribleness, terror.. Occurs 12 times.

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*môwrâʼ* — fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed

KJV: dread, (that ought to be) fear(-ed), terribleness, terror.

Derived from [יָרֵא yârêʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H3372) (to fear)

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מוֹרָא n.m. fear
- 1 fear, terror
- 2 reverence
- 3 object of reverence, esp. God
- 4 awe-inspiring spectacle or deed
- מוֹרָה n.[m.]
- מוֹרָה n.[m.] ψ 9:21, prob. appoint terror (i.e. some awe-inspiring exhibition of power) for them

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 9:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=2) — The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything…
- [Deuteronomy 4:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=34) — Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by…
- [Deuteronomy 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/11?v=25) — No man will be able to stand before you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the…
- [Deuteronomy 26:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=8) — The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with…
- [Deuteronomy 34:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/34?v=12) — and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
- [Isaiah 8:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=12) — “Don’t call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their threats or be terrorized.
- [Isaiah 8:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=13) — The LORD of Hosts is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
- [Jeremiah 32:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/32?v=21) — and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an…
- [Malachi 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/1?v=6) — “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master…
- [Malachi 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/2?v=5) — “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was…