ΦΟΒΕΡΟΝ, φοβερον
PHOBERON, phoberon
Sounds Like: fo-BEH-ron
Translations: terrible, dreadful, fearful, formidable, awe-inspiring
From the root: ΦΟΒΕΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that causes fear, awe, or dread. It can refer to something that is terrifying or formidable, or something that inspires reverence and respect due to its power or majesty. It is often used to describe things that are dangerous or powerful.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G5402 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 21:2
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 3:16
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Judges — 13:6
- 2 Maccabees — 3:25
- Psalms — 98:3, 110:9
- Isaiah — 21:1
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 7:7, 7:19
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:7
- Enoch — 21:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΟΒΕΡΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΟΒΕΡΟΣ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, formidable, awe-inspiring
- ΦΟΒΕΡ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, awe-inspiring, formidable
- ΦΟΒΕΡΑ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, formidable, awful, a terrible thing, a dreadful thing
- ΦΟΒΕΡΑΙ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, formidable
- ΦΟΒΕΡΑΝ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, awe-inspiring, a terrible (one)
- ΦΟΒΕΡΑΣ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, awe-inspiring, a terrible, a dreadful
- ΦΟΒΕΡΟΙ — terrible, fearsome, dreadful, formidable, awe-inspiring
- ΦΟΒΕΡΟΙΣ — to terrible, to dreadful, to fearful, to awe-inspiring
- ΦΟΒΕΡΟΣ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, formidable, awe-inspiring
- ΦΟΒΕΡΟΥ — of fearful, of terrible, of dreadful, of awesome
- ΦΟΒΕΡΟΥΣ — terrible, fearsome, dreadful, awesome, formidable
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩ — (to) terrible, (to) dreadful, (to) fearful, (to) awesome, (to) formidable
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩΝ — terrible, dreadful, fearful, formidable, awe-inspiring, of terrible things
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩΤΕΡΑ — more terrible, more dreadful, more fearful, a more terrible one
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩΤΕΡΑΝ — more terrible, more fearful, more dreadful, more formidable
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩΤΕΡΟΙ — more terrible, more fearful, more formidable, more dreadful
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more terrible, more fearful, more dreadful, more formidable
- ΦΟΒΕΡΩΤΕΡΟΣ — more terrible, more fearful, more dreadful, more formidable
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