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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Dread

The Bible

Bible Usage:

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dread

DREAD, noun Dred. [Latin , to dread; fearful; to tremble. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to shrink.]

1. Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger. It expresses more than fear, and less than terror or fright. It is an uneasiness or alarm excited by expected pain, loss or other evil. We speak of the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure. It differs from terror also in being less sudden or more continued.

2. Awe; fear united with respect.

3. Terror.

Shall not his dread fall on you. Job 13:11.

4. The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded.

Let him be your dread Isaiah 8:13.

DREAD, adjective

1. Exciting great fear or apprehension.

2. Terrible; frightful.

3. Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

DREAD, verb transitive To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.

DREAD, verb intransitive To be in great fear.

DREAD not, neither be afraid of them. Deuteronomy 1:29.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dreadable

DREADABLE, adjective That is to be dreaded. [Not used.]


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Dreaded

DREADED, participle passive Feared.


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Dreader

DREADER, noun One that fears, or lives in fear.


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Dreadful

DREADFUL, adjective

1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as a dreadful storm, or dreadful night.

The great and dreadful day of the Lord. Malachi 4:5.

2. Awful; venerable.

How dreadful is this place. Genesis 48:1.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dreadfully

DREADFULLY, adverb Terribly; in a manner to be dreaded.


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Dreadfulness

DREADFULNESS, noun Terribleness; the quality of being dreadful; frightfulness.


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Dreadless

DREADLESS, adjective Fearless; bold; not intimidated; undaunted; free from fear or terror; intrepid.


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Dreadlessness

DREADLESSNESS, noun Fearlessness; undauntedness; freedom from fear or terror; boldness.