יָגֹר
to fear
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 4 times (80%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3025 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 9:19 יָגֹ֗רְתִּי Qal pf 1cs For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 יָגֹ֖רְתָּ Qal pf 2ms He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
Job 2 verses
Psalms 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.
At its core, יגר (yâgôr) means “to fear.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Deuteronomy (40% of all occurrences). It first appears in Deuteronomy 9:19. Sharing its root, it stands alongside יגור. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3025 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 40%
- Job 2 verses 40%
- Psalms 1 verse 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 60%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 40%
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: I was afraid 2×
- American Standard Version: I am afraid 1×, I was afraid 1×, Me 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I dread 1×, I dreaded 1×, I was afraid 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I dread 1×, I dreaded 1×, I was afraid 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3025 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3025 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3025 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3025 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- (Qal) to fear, dread, be afraid
Word origin
[ יָגֹר ] vb. be afraid, fear
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יְגָר
- , constr. יְגַר ch. = h. אֵגוֹר, hill, heap of stones. Targ. O. Gen. XXXI, 47 (Y. אוֹגַר).—Pl. יַגְרִין. Targ. Jer. IX, 10. Ib. XXVI, 18 (ed. Wil. יַגָרִין); a. fr.—Targ. Job XV, 28 יְגוֹרִין.—יְגַר שַׂהֲדוּתָא pr. n. pl. (bibl.) Y’gar Sahădutha (Hill of Testimony). Tosef. Shebi. IV, 11 Var. (ed. Zuck. יגוד סיכותא, read יְגוֹר v. סָכוּתָא); Y. ib. VI, 36ᶜ (v. Hildesh. Beitr. p. 57, sq.).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H3025 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָ֝גֹ֗רְתִּי | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Job 3:25 | 1 |
| יָגֹ֑רְתִּי | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Psalms 119:39 | 1 |
| יָגֹ֖רְתָּ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 28:60 | 1 |
| יָגֹ֗רְתִּי | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Deuteronomy 9:19 | 1 |
| יָגֹ֥רְתִּי | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Job 9:28 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3025, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
