Bible word study

Yare (Strong’s H3372): Meaning in the Bible

Yare (יָרֵא) is the Hebrew word numbered H3372 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten. In the King James Bible it is translated affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully.

• Original wordיָרֵא
• Transliterationyârêʼ
• Pronunciationyaw-ray'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3372
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yare appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yare (H3372) stands behind 313 English renderings in 304 verses across 34 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (46), Deuteronomy (36), Isaiah (25).

How the King James Bible renders Yare, by count

• fear148 of 313 (47 percent)
• afraid78 of 313 (25 percent)
• feared37 of 313 (12 percent)
• terrible23 of 313 (7 percent)
• things5 of 313 (2 percent)
• dreadful4 of 313 (1 percent)

Three places to read Yare

• Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
• 1 Samuel 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
• Psalms 76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yare in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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