that feareth - H3373
H3373
- From H3372; fearing;
morally reverent.
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H3372 - A
primitive root; to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten.
H3373 is used 43 times in 43 verses (one for one).
Gen 22:12 And he said, Lay not
thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that
thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son
from me.
22 chapters before fearing God is mentioned? Pretty amazing. Then not again until:
Gen 42:18 And Joseph said unto
them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
Joseph speaking to his brothers – would they have
grasped he was speaking about the one true God and the reverential fear He
deserves?
Fear is only used 1 time in Exodus (18:21); Deuteronomy
(20:8); Judges (7:3)
Three times in Job – Psalms has the most with 26! Proverbs 3 and Ecclesiastes 2, I’d have thought
it would have been used more in the wisdom
books!
Though we are to speak to one another in psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs, so perhaps its more appropriate to the bulk in
Psalms!
Isaiah – 1
Jeremiah – 1
Malachi – 2
All of the usages couple ‘fear’ with God, Lord,
him, thee, or thy name except:
Deu 20:8 And
the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is
there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto
his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Jdg 7:3 Now therefore go to,
proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful
and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there
returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten
thousand.
Pro 13:13 Whoso despiseth the
word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be
rewarded.
Pro 14:16 A wise man feareth,
and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Jer 42:16 Then it shall come
to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you
there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall
follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
Out of 43 verses – 5 weren’t coupled with God (in
some way – though Proverbs 13:13 might not qualify if commandment is synonymous
with God).
So saints how much are we reverentially fearing God? Keeping His commandments, desiring to please
Him in everything we do?
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