3415. yara
Strong's Lexicon
yara: To fear, to revere, to be afraid

Original Word: יָרָא
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: yara
Pronunciation: yah-rah
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-rah')
Definition: To fear, to revere, to be afraid
Meaning: to be broken up, to fear

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to quiver
NASB Translation
trembles (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[יָרַע] verb quiver (compare Arabic be timid, weak; pious fear; ᵑ7 יְרַע be disheartened) —

Qal Perfect3feminine singular נַפְשׁוֺ יָָֽרְעָה לוֺ Isaiah 15:4 his soul quivereth to him, i.e. is in terror and distress.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
to fear, be grevious

A primitive root; properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear -- be grevious (only Isa. 15:4; the rest belong to ra'a').

see HEBREW ra'a'

Forms and Transliterations
וַיֵּ֥רַע וירע יֵ֖רַע יֵ֧רַֽע יֵרַ֣ע יָ֥רְעָה ירע ירעה vaiYera way·yê·ra‘ wayyêra‘ yā·rə·‘āh yārə‘āh Yareah yê·ra‘ yeRa yêra‘
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Samuel 1:8
HEB: תֹֽאכְלִ֔י וְלָ֖מֶה יֵרַ֣ע לְבָבֵ֑ךְ הֲל֤וֹא
KJV: thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better
INT: eat and why grieved is your heart not

2 Samuel 20:6
HEB: אֲבִישַׁ֔י עַתָּ֗ה יֵ֧רַֽע לָ֛נוּ שֶׁ֥בַע
KJV: of Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom:
INT: Abishai Now harm Sheba the son

Job 20:26
HEB: לֹֽא־ נֻפָּ֑ח יֵ֖רַע שָׂרִ֣יד בְּאָהֳלֽוֹ׃
KJV: shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left
INT: not and unfanned ill the survivor his tent

Psalm 106:32
HEB: מֵ֥י מְרִיבָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥רַע לְ֝מֹשֶׁ֗ה בַּעֲבוּרָֽם׃
KJV: of strife, so that it went ill with Moses
INT: the waters provocation ill Moses their account

Isaiah 15:4
HEB: יָרִ֔יעוּ נַפְשׁ֖וֹ יָ֥רְעָה לּֽוֹ׃
NAS: His soul trembles within him.
KJV: his life shall be grievous unto him.
INT: cry his soul trembles

5 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3415
5 Occurrences


way·yê·ra‘ — 1 Occ.
yā·rə·‘āh — 1 Occ.
yê·ra‘ — 3 Occ.

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