2001 Translation

PHOBEROS, phoberos

Sounds Like: foh-BEH-ros

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 terrible or formidable, inspiring respect or terror. It is used to describe things that are dangerous, powerful, or majestic.

Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Strong’s number: G5398 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 18:12, 21:8

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:194

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Chronicles — 16:25
• 2 Esdras — 11:5, 19:32
• Esther — 5:1c
• Psalms — 46:3, 65:5, 75:8, 88:8, 95:4
• Proverbs — 12:25
• Sirach — 1:8, 9:18, 43:29
• Habakkuk — 1:7

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 14 — 11:286
• Book 17 — 2:33, 10:272
• Book 19 — 1:50

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 11:19, 25:8, 30:1, 33:12
• Book Three — 7:34
• Book Seven — 8:66

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 41:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 16:1, 58:13, 73:3, 74:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 28:17
• Deuteronomy — 10:17
• 1 Chronicles — 16:25
• Nehemiah — 1:5, 9:32
• Esther — 5:1
• 2 Maccabees — 1:24
• Psalms — 46:3, 65:5, 75:8, 88:8, 95:4
• Proverbs — 12:25
• Sirach — 1:8, 9:18, 43:29
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 9:4
• Habakkuk — 1:7
• Enoch — 18:12, 21:8

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
• ΦΟΒΕΡΟΝ — 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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