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מוֹרָא

mora · fear, terror

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4172 · appears 12 times in the Bible

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What it means

mora (מוֹרָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fear, terror”.

Fear, the dread someone inspires; a fearful deed.

How to say it

mo·ra

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Dread, or deeds that terrify.
  2. The one to be revered; YHWH.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • terror ×5
  • fear ×4
  • Fearsome One ×1
  • terrors ×1
  • what it fears ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 9:2

    And the fear and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are given.

  • Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or has a god tried to come and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Deuteronomy 11:25

    No man will stand before you; the dread of you and the terror of you YHWH your Elohim will put on the face of all the land on which you tread, as he has spoken to you.

  • Deuteronomy 26:8

    And YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders.

  • Deuteronomy 34:12

    and for all the strong hand and for all the great terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

  • Psalms 9:20

    Put terror on them, YHWH; let the nations know that they are mortals. Selah.

  • Psalms 76:11

    Make vows and fulfill them to YHWH your Elohim; let all who surround him bring tribute to the Fearsome One.

  • Isaiah 8:12

    “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and what it fears do not fear, and do not be terrified.

  • Isaiah 8:13

    YHWH Tsevaot, him you shall regard as holy; and he shall be your fear, and he your terror.

  • Jeremiah 32:21

    And you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

  • Malachi 1:6

    A son honors his father, and a slave his master. And if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says YHWH Tsevaot to you, priests who despise my name. And you say, “How have we despised your name?”

  • Malachi 2:5

    My covenant was with him, life and peace, and I gave them to him, and with them fear; and he feared me and before my name he stood in awe.