מְגוֹרָה
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4034 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 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.
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 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.
מגורה — transliterated mᵉgôwrah — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “fear.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in Psalms 34:4. From the same root come מגור, מגורה and מגור מסביב. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4034 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 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: Fear 1×
- American Standard Version: Fear 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dreads 1×, Fears 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fears 1×, Terror of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4034 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4034 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4034 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4034 across 2 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.
- fear, terror
Word origin
Derived from מגור (mâgôwr) (H4032) — fear.
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.
מְגוּרָה I
- store-room; bin for wheat, figs &c.; reservoir. Pes. 4ᵇ, a. e. מ׳ מליאה פירות a store-house full of provision. Maasr. I, 8, v. עָגַל; a. e.—Tosef. Mikv. I, 17 מ׳ של דיסקוס וכ׳ (ed. Zuck. ינורס, corr. acc.) the water-reservoir of Discus in Jabneh; Y. Ter. VIII, 45ᵇ מְגוֹרֶת של וכ׳; Kidd. 66ᵇ מ׳ של דסקים.—Trnsf. (v. אֲגוֹרָה) pericarp of nuts, almonds &c.; drupe. Maasr. I, 2 nuts are subject to tithes משיעשו מ׳ from the time they form drupes; Tosef. ib. I, 1; Y. ib. I, 48ᵈ bot.—Gen. R. s. 18 בנה בה מגורות וכ׳ (read מְגוֹרֶת) he built in woman’s body one store-room (the womb) more than in man; (Erub. 18ᵃ sq. כבנין אוצר).—Pl. מְגוּרוֹת. B. Bath. IV, 6 (67ᵇ) מ׳ שלמים (Ms. M. מערות) reservoirs. Kel. XIX, 7 מ׳ שבה the drawers in a chest. Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. II, 7 בית תבלין … העשוי מ׳ מ׳ וכ׳ a wooden spice box having compartments (partitions) without lids. Ib. B. Mets. VIII, 1 שידה שהמ׳ שלה וכ׳ (ed. Zuck. מגירות, corr. acc.) a chest whose drawers are inside (not protruding). Yalk. Cant. 992, v. אֲגוֹרָה.
מְגוּרָה II
- (גּוּר I) a court containing several dwellings. Erub. 70ᵇ (Rashi: a barn divided off, v. preced.).—Pl. מְגוּרוֹת (or מְגוֹרוֹת) neighborhood, neighbors. Gen. R. s. 99; Tanḥ. Vayḥi 9, v. מְכֵרוֹת.
מגורה
- , Y. Sabb. XVI, end, 15ᵈ במ׳ דר׳ יונה, read מְגִירֵיה, v. מָגֵיר
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 2 distinct written forms H4034 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְ֝גוּרוֹתַ֗/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 34:4 | 1 |
| מְגוֹרַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 10:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4034, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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.
