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|txtha=φόβῳ: [[passive]], [[present]] φοβοῦμαι; [[imperfect]] ἐφοβούμην; 1st aorist ἐφοβήθην; [[future]] φοβηθήσομαι; ([[φόβος]]); from [[Homer]] [[down]]; to [[terrify]], [[frighten]], to [[put]] to [[flight]] by terrifying (to [[scare]] [[away]]). Passive:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to be [[put]] to [[flight]], to [[flee]] ([[Homer]]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[fear]], be [[afraid]]; the Sept. [[very]] [[often]] for יָרֵא; [[absolutely]] to be struck [[with]] [[fear]], to be seized [[with]] [[alarm]]: of those [[who]] [[fear]] [[harm]] or [[injury]], ὑψηλοφρονεῖν, L in brackets); [[σφόδρα]] added, L T Tr WH); [[ἀγαπάω]], [[under]] the [[end]]): φόβον μέγαν, [[literally]], to '[[fear]] a [[great]] [[fear]],' [[fear]] [[exceedingly]], φόβον αὐτῶν, the [[fear]] [[which]] [[they]] [[inspire]] ([[see]] [[φόβος]], 1), [[τοῦ]] Τανταλου, to be [[filled]] [[with]] the [[same]] [[fear]] as [[Tantalus]], Schol. ad [[Euripides]], Or. 6); [[with]] the [[synonymous]] πτόησιν ([[which]] [[see]]), τινα, to [[fear]] [[one]], be [[afraid]] of [[one]], [[lest]] he do [[harm]], be displeased, etc.: Buttmann, § 151,11); Buttmann, § 139,48; Winer's Grammar, 505 (471)); [[τόν]] Θεόν, God, the [[judge]] and [[avenger]], τί, to [[fear]] [[danger]] from [[something]], מִן יָרֵא), followed by [[ἀπό]] τίνος (cf. Buttmann, § 147,3): φοβοῦμαι μή, to [[fear]] [[lest]], [[with]] the subjunctive aorist: Acts ( L T Tr WH); [[μήπως]], [[lest]] [[perchance]], L [[μήπω]] ([[which]] [[see]] 2), others [[μήπου]] ([[which]] [[see]])); φοβηθῶμεν (equivalent to [[let]] us [[take]] [[anxious]] [[care]]) [[μήποτε]] [[τίς]] δοκῇ, [[lest]] anyone [[may]] [[seem]] ([[see]] [[δοκέω]], 2at the [[end]]), φοβοῦμαι [[ὑμᾶς]], [[μήπως]] κεκοπίακα, [[μήπως]], 1b.); φοβοῦμαι [[with]] an infinitive to [[fear]] (i. e. [[hesitate]]) to do [[something]] (for [[fear]] of [[harm]]), [[Aeschylus]] [[down]] [[see]] Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], 2, vol. ii., p. 2315{a}; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], Buttmann, II:4)).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[reverence]], [[venerate]], to [[treat]] [[with]] [[deference]] or reverential [[obedience]]: τινα, [[τόν]] Θεόν, used of his [[devout]] worshippers, ); [[τόν]] κύριον, G L T Tr WH); τό [[ὄνομα]] [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, Sirach , cf. Wahl, Clavis Apocr. V. T., [[under]] the [[word]], at the [[end]]); οἱ φοβούμενοι [[τόν]] Θεόν [[specifically]], of proselytes: [[σέβω]]). Compare: [[ἐκφοβέω]]. [ SYNONYMS: ἐκπλήσσεσθαι to be astonished, [[properly]], to be struck [[with]] [[terror]], of a [[sudden]] and [[startling]] [[alarm]]; [[but]], [[like]] [[our]] [[astonish]] in [[popular]] [[use]], [[often]] employed on [[comparatively]] [[slight]] occasions, and [[even]] [[then]] [[with]] strengthening particles (as [[σφόδρα]] [[ὑπερπερισσῶς]] πτόειν to [[terrify]], to [[agitate]] [[with]] [[fear]]; τρέμειν, to [[tremble]], predominantly [[physical]]; φόβειν to [[fear]], the [[general]] [[term]]; [[often]] used of a protracted [[state]]. Cf. Schmidt, [[chapter]] 139.]  

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