Mâgôwr — H4032

Definition

masculine noun

a fright (objective or subjective)

1. fear, terror

Usually translated as

fear, terror

Origin

or (Lamentations 2:22) mâgûwr; from H1481 in the sense of fearing

• Derived from Gûwr (H1481)

Greek equivalents

• apṓleia (G684)
• paroikía (G3940)
• synathroízō (G4867)

Occurrences

Mâgôwr occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (5), Lamentations (1)

• Psalms 31:13 — For I have heard the slander of many: fear (מָג֪וֹר) was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
• Isaiah 31:9 — And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear (מִמָּג֣וֹר), and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 6:25 — Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear (מָג֖וֹר) is on every side.
• Jeremiah 20:4 — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror (לְמָג֜וֹר) to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
• Jeremiah 20:10 — For I heard the defaming of many, fear (מָג֣וֹר) on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
• Jeremiah 46:5 — Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear (מָג֥וֹר) was round about, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 49:29 — Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear (מָג֖וֹר) is on every side.
• Lamentations 2:22 — Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors (מְגוּרַי֙) round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.