פַּחַד
pachad · pakh'-ad
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6342 (פָּחַד);
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › to separate and protect › the doorway, the way in
To speak, the word that works to separate and protect of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פַּחַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- fear9 · 20%
- for the fear5 · 11%
- and the fear4 · 9%
- the fear3 · 7%
- from fear3 · 7%
- there were they in great2 · 4%
- when your fear2 · 4%
- by the fear1 · 2%
- and dread1 · 2%
- the dread1 · 2%
- wherefore now let the fear1 · 2%
- because the fear1 · 2%
- for the thing which i greatly1 · 2%
- and his dread1 · 2%
- a dreadful1 · 2%
- and fear1 · 2%
- was a terror1 · 2%
- without fear1 · 2%
- at fear1 · 2%
- and a fear1 · 2%
- that there is no fear1 · 2%
- where no fear1 · 2%
- for the terror1 · 2%
- for fear1 · 2%
- because of fear1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.