εὐλαβέομαι
to fear
‘to fear’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2125 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ευλαβεομαι — transliterated eulabéomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to fear.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Hebrews. A true hapax — its single appearance is Hebrews 11:7. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2125 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fearing 1×, Moved with fear 1×
- American Standard Version: Fearing 1×, Moved with godly fear 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Godly fear 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having become reverent 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2125 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2125 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2125 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2125 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to act cautiously, circumspectly
- to beware, fear
- to reverence, stand in awe of
Word origin
Derived from ευλαβης (eulabḗs) (G2126) — devout.
Middle voice from G2126 ; to be circumspect that is (by implication) to be apprehensive ; religiously to reverence : - (moved with) fear.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2125, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ευλαβεομαι appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 21 verses in 13 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 21
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 3:6 εὐλαβέομαι
- Deuteronomy 2:4 εὐλαβέομαι
- 1 Samuel 18:8 εὐλαβέομαι
- Job 13:25 εὐλαβέομαι
- Proverbs 2:8 εὐλαβέομαι
- Isaiah 51:12 εὐλαβέομαι
- Jeremiah 4:1 εὐλαβέομαι
- Daniel 4:2 εὐλαβέομαι
- Nahum 1:7 εὐλαβέομαι
- Habakkuk 2:20 εὐλαβέομαι
- Zephaniah 1:7 εὐλαβέομαι
- Zechariah 2:17 εὐλαβέομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2125) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 3:6 εὐλαβέομαι Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
- Deuteronomy 2:4 εὐλαβέομαι Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
- 1 Samuel 18:8 εὐλαβέομαι Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
- 1 Samuel 18:19 εὐλαβέομαι But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
- Job 13:25 εὐλαβέομαι Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 19:29 εὐλαβέομαι Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."
- Proverbs 2:8 εὐλαβέομαι That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
- Proverbs 30:5 εὐλαβέομαι "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- Isaiah 51:12 εὐλαβέομαι I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
- Isaiah 57:11 εὐλαβέομαι Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?
- Jeremiah 4:1 εὐλαβέομαι If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
- Jeremiah 5:22 εὐλαβέομαι Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.
- Jeremiah 15:17 εὐλαβέομαι I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
- Jeremiah 22:25 εὐλαβέομαι and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
- Daniel 4:2 εὐλαβέομαι It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
- Nahum 1:7 εὐλαβέομαι Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Habakkuk 2:20 εὐλαβέομαι But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
- Zephaniah 1:7 εὐλαβέομαι Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
- Zephaniah 3:12 εὐλαβέομαι But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
- Zechariah 2:17 εὐλαβέομαι
- Malachi 3:16 εὐλαβέομαι Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2125) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
