Biblical words for fear
fright – to shrink back, to encounter something more powerful than ourselves or something beyond our understanding.
The Greek word – ekthambeo from Mark 16:5 is translated affright or amazed … and they were amazed
• Isaiah 55: 8-9
• Hebrew 10:19-39
dismay - drained of confidence and courage to the point of fainting.
• Daniel 10:8-11
• Joshua 1:9
astonishment - to stupify, shocked with the inability to speak.
• Acts 9:3-7 Greek-thambeo
trembling - physical result of overpowering fear.
• Daniel 5:5-9
• Matthew 28:3-4
dread - more than afraid, but less than terrorized; intense uneasiness, alarmed, excited by expectation of a happening
• Proverbs 1:20-33
• Psalms 27:1
Greek- phobos, Hebrew- chath both words literally mean terror
Psalms 88:16 God’s judgments called terrors.
2 Corinthians 5:10-11 We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ