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Exodus 1:17

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3372 feared ותיראן

H3205 But the midwives המילדת

H853 את

H430 God האלהים

H3808 not ולא

H6213 and did עשׂו

H834 as כאשׁר

H1696 commanded דבר

H413 אליהן

H4428 the king מלך

H4714 of Egypt מצרים

H2421 them but saved ותחיין

H853 את

H3206 the men children הילדים׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

But

the

H3205 midwives

H3372 feared

H430 God

and

H6213 did

H3808 not

H834 as

the

H4428 king

H4714 Egypt

H1696 commanded

them

but

H2421 saved

the

men

H3206 children

alive

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H3372

Hebrew: יָרֵא

Transliteration: yârêʼ

Pronunciation: yaw-ray'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: {affright} be (make) {afraid} dread ({-ful}) (put in) fear ({-ful} {-fully} -ing). (be had in) reverence ({-end}) X-(idiom) {see} terrible ({act} {-ness} thing).

Definition:

to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten

1. to fear, revere, be afraid

a. (Qal)

1. to fear, be afraid

2. to stand in awe of, be awed

3. to fear, reverence, honour, respect

b. (Niphal)

1. to be fearful, be dreadful, be feared

2. to cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe

3. to inspire reverence or godly fear or awe

c. (Piel) to make afraid, terrify

2. to shoot, pour

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906