What does ἔμφοβος (émphobos) mean in the Bible?
ἔμφοβος (émphobos): Fear characterized by reverence or awe, often in encounters with the divine or supernatural.
Greek · G1719
ἔμφοβος
Afraid
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ἔμφοβος G1719
Pronunciation émphobos
What does ἔμφοβος (émphobos) mean in the Bible?
ἔμφοβος (émphobos): Fear characterized by reverence or awe, often in encounters with the divine or supernatural.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G1719?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include frightened (2), in fear (1), in terror (1), terrified (1).
Where does ἔμφοβος (émphobos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 24:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2), Luke (2), Revelation (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It frightened 2× Luke 24:37, Acts 24:25
in fear 1× Acts 10:4
in terror 1× Luke 24:5
terrified 1× Revelation 11:13
Show sample aligned rows
Luke 24:5 ἐμφόβων to in terror Adjective - Genitive Feminine Plural Luke 24:37 ἔμφοβοι to frightened Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Acts 10:4 ἔμφοβος to in fear Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Acts 24:25 ἔμφοβος to frightened Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Revelation 11:13 ἔμφοβοι to terrified Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 24:5
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 3
Luke 2 Acts 2 Revelation 1
Source forms
ἔμφοβοι 2x emphoboi Luke 24:37, Revelation 11:13
ἔμφοβος 2x emphobos Acts 10:4, Acts 24:25
ἐμφόβων 1x emphobōn Luke 24:5
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Luke 24:37, Revelation 11:13
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular 2x Acts 10:4, Acts 24:25
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Plural 1x Luke 24:5
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Fear characterized by reverence or awe, often in encounters with the divine or supernatural.
Strong's G1719
Lexical occurrences 5 verses Greek text appearances 6 times Word forms 3 forms 5 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
afraid
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
6 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 24:5 Adjective Genitive Plural Feminine
ἐμφόβων emfobwn
full of fear, terrified
Read verse Luke 24:37 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ἔμφοβοι emfoboi
full of fear, terrified
Read verse Acts 10:4 Adjective Nominative Singular Masculine
ἔμφοβος emfobov
full of fear, terrified
Read verse Acts 22:9 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ἔμφοβοι emfoboi
full of fear, terrified
Read verse Acts 24:25 Adjective Nominative Singular Masculine
ἔμφοβος emfobov
full of fear, terrified
Read verse Revelation 11:13 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ἔμφοβοι emfoboi
full of fear, terrified
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 5 Case pattern Nominative (4) Number pattern Plural (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Luke 24:37 · Rev 11:13 2×
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Acts 10:4 · Acts 24:25 2×
Genitive · Plural · Feminine Luke 24:5 1×
Word Origins
ἔμφοβος is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain