Strong G5401φόβος
fear
- Transliteration
- phobos
- Pronunciation
- fob'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From a primary φέβομαι phebomai (to be put in fear);
alarm or fright: - be afraid + exceedingly fear terror.
alarm or fright: - be afraid + exceedingly fear terror.
Detailed definition
φόβος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for יִרְאָה, also for פַּחַד, אֵימָה, etc.;]
1. in Hom., flight.
2. That which causes flight, fear, dread, terror: Luk.1:12, Act.5:5, 1Ti.5:20. 1Jn.4:18, al.; cogn. accusative, φοβεῖσθαι φ., Mrk.4:41, Luk.2:9; with genitive obj., Jhn.7:13 19:33 20:19, Heb.2:5, 1Pe.3:14 (but cf. ICC, in l);ἀπὸ (τοῦ) φ., Mat.14:26, Luk.21:26; εἰς φ., Rom.8:15; μετὰ φόβου, Mat.28:8; φ. καὶ τρόμος (Lft., Notes, 172), 1Co.2:3, 2Co.7:15, Eph.6:5, Php.2:12; by meton., of that which causes fear, Rom.13:3; of reverential fear, Rom.13:7, 1Pe.1:17 2:18 3:2 3:15; τ. κυρίου, Act.9:31, 2Co.5:11 (see Field, Notes, 183); Χριστοῦ, Eph.5:21; θεοῦ, Rom.3:18, 2Co.7:1
SYN.: see: δειλία (and of. DCG, i, 381) (AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יִרְאָה, also for פַּחַד, אֵימָה, etc.;]
1. in Hom., flight.
2. That which causes flight, fear, dread, terror: Luk.1:12, Act.5:5, 1Ti.5:20. 1Jn.4:18, al.; cogn. accusative, φοβεῖσθαι φ., Mrk.4:41, Luk.2:9; with genitive obj., Jhn.7:13 19:33 20:19, Heb.2:5, 1Pe.3:14 (but cf. ICC, in l);ἀπὸ (τοῦ) φ., Mat.14:26, Luk.21:26; εἰς φ., Rom.8:15; μετὰ φόβου, Mat.28:8; φ. καὶ τρόμος (Lft., Notes, 172), 1Co.2:3, 2Co.7:15, Eph.6:5, Php.2:12; by meton., of that which causes fear, Rom.13:3; of reverential fear, Rom.13:7, 1Pe.1:17 2:18 3:2 3:15; τ. κυρίου, Act.9:31, 2Co.5:11 (see Field, Notes, 183); Χριστοῦ, Eph.5:21; θεοῦ, Rom.3:18, 2Co.7:1
SYN.: see: δειλία (and of. DCG, i, 381) (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5401 appears in 44 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- fear39
- terror3
First verses
- Matthew 14:26And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
- Matthew 28:4And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
- Matthew 28:8And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
- Mark 4:41And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
- Luke 1:12And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
- Luke 1:65And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea.
- Luke 2:9And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
- Luke 5:26And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
- Luke 7:16And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
- Luke 8:37Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
- Luke 21:26Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
- John 7:13Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
- John 19:38And after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
- John 20:19Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
- Acts 2:43And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
- Acts 5:5And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
- Acts 5:11And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
- Acts 9:31Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
- Acts 19:17And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
- Romans 3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
φόβος, ὁ,
(φέβομαι) panic flight, the usual sense in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, cf. Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.71 (but compare φύζα, φόβου κρυόεντος ἑταίρη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.2); once in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, οἱ δ᾽ ἔσχοντο φόβου 24.57; frequently in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, Δαναῶν γένετο ἰαχή τε φ. τε 15.396; πρῶτος Πηνέλεως.. ἦρχε φόβοιο 17.597; ἐς φόβον ἀνδρῶν 15.310; φόβονδε ={φύγαδε}, ἑστάμεναι κρατερῶς, μηδὲ τρωπᾶσθε φόβονδε [prev. work] 666)]; φόβονδ᾽ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους [Refs (8.139)]; μή τι φόβονδ᾽ ἀγόρευε counsel not to flight,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5.252; ἀΐξαντα φόβονδε 17.579; ὦρσαν φόβον Δαναοῖς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.145.)]
2 Φόβος personified, as son of Ares, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.299; Δεῖμός τε Φ. τε 11.37, compare 4.440, 15.119, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 934, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 45)]; worshipped at Selinus, [Refs (“IG” 14.268.2.)]
II panic fear, [στρατῷ] φ. ἐμβάλλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10. ; ἐν τῷ γινομένῳ φ. [prev. author] 9.69)]; generally, fear, terror (distinguished from δέος (which see)), τορὸς ὀρθόθριξ φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 32 (Lyric poetry); διάτορος φ. [prev. author] “Pr.” 183 (Lyric poetry); ταρβόσυνος [prev. author] “Th.” 240 (Lyric poetry); νεανικός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1204)]; joined with δέος and δεῖμα, (see entry).; opposed to θάρρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 644c)]; sometimes in milder sense, doubt, scruple, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 101b)]; ἔχει πολλὴν ὑποψίαν καὶ φ. ὡς.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 268a)]: also, awe, reverence, for a ruler or divine being, τοῦ ἡγεμόνος [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1642.17 (3rd c.AD))]; θεοῦ [LXX+4th c.AD+ (LXX.Psa.35(36).1, “PLond.” 2.418.4 (4th c.AD): τοῦκυρίου NT.Act.931)].—Construction, a. with genitive object, fear or dread of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 116 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.54, etc.; φ. τοῦ στρατεῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.18: with double _genitive_, ὀμμάτων εἰληφότας φόβον.. τῆς ἐμῆς ἐπεισόδου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 730: with Preps., φ. ἀπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.37 codices; ὁ ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων φ. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.3.53; οὑξ ὀνειράτων φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 929; πρός τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 783; πρός τινας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 16.10, 25.93)]; φ. περὶ τοῦ καρποῦ fear for or concerning.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.88; φ. ἑκάστων πέρι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 20b; ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέλλοντος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.41; τὸν ἐκ τῶν Ἑλλήνων εἰς τοὺς βαρβάρους φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.18)]; τῷ καθ᾽ ἑαντὸν φ. from personal fear, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.2: with)]infinitive, φόβῳ εἰσορᾶν from fear to see, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1342:—for τεθνάναι τῷ φόβῳ τινά, see at {θνῄσκω} I.2.)]
II.b with Verbs, τεύχειν φόβον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1090 (_anapaest meter_); κλάζουσι κώδωνες φ. [prev. author] “Th.” 386; φ. ποιεῖν τοῖς ἵπποις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.18; παρασχεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1113, etc.; παρασκευάζειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.86)]; φόβους ἐμβάλλειν, φόβον ἐνθεῖναί τινι, to strike terror into one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.18, “An.” 7.4.1; ἐνεργάσασθαί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.38, 11.25; ἔδωκ᾽ Ἀπόλλων θῆρας φόβῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.61)]; of the person who feels fear, φόβον λαβεῖν, ἔχειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 39, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 11.11; ἐκ φόβου φ. τρέφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 28: _accusative_ _cognate_, φόβους φοβεῖσθαι, δεδοικέναι, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 360b, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 548)]; τὸν σὸν οὐ ταρβῶ φ. I fear not with thy fear, i.e. not like thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1251)]; Ταντάλου φ. φοβεῖσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 6; ἐς φ. κατιστέατο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.12, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.81; ἐν φ. γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 578e; φ. μ᾽ ἔχει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1243, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1255)]; μοι φ. τις εἰσελήλυθ᾽, μ᾽ ὑπῆλθέ τις φ.,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1324, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1231; τοῖς Ἕλλησι φ. ἐμπίπτει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.19, etc.)]; διὰ φόβου ἔρχομαι, διὰ φόβων γίγνομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 757 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 791b: opposed to φόβον λύειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 270, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 104; διαλῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 241b; φόβους ἐξαίρει τῶν πολιτῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.23; ἀπεληλακέναι τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.10)]; φόβου ἀπαλλάξεσθαι to get rid of it,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 5.2.32; φόβου ἐκλύσασθαί τινα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1002; φόβους ἀπολύεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1415b18)]; φόβου μεθεῖσα (Valck. φόβον) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 555; φόβου ἔξωθεν εἶναι [prev. author] “El.” 901; ἵνα φόβος εἴη στρατεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.3)]; οὐ φ. μὴ.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Mem.” 2.1.25)]; φ. ἐστὶν ὅπως μὴ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 193a)]; but φόβος εἰ πείσω I fear I shall not persuade.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 184 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἡμέας ἔχειφ. τε καὶ δέος ὅκως χρὴ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.115 (φόβος ἦν ὥστε μὴ τέγξαι is corrupt in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1380): adverbial usages, φόβῳ)] by or through fear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 786 (Lyric poetry), “Th.” 240 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἀνάγκῃ καὶ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 554d: with Preps., διὰ φόβον, διὰ τὸν φ., 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 41, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.38, “Cyr.” 3.1.24; ἐκ τίνος φόβο; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 887; μετὰ φόβων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.26; ἄρχειν ξὺν φόβοισι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 585; προαποθνῄσκειν ὑπὸ τοῦ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.25; poetical, ἀμφὶ φόβῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 825 (Lyric poetry))]: plural, not only in Poets, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.27, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 134 (probable reading), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 531, etc.)], but also in Prose, φόβους καὶ δείματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.80; πόνους καὶ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635c; κινδύνους καὶ φ. [prev. author] “Tht.” 173a.)]
II.2 object or cause of terror, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1652)]; φόβος ἀκοῦσαι a terror to hear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.112: _plural_, ἢν φόβους λέγῃ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 917; πολλῶν φ. προσαγομένων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.23.)]
(φέβομαι) panic flight, the usual sense in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, cf. Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.71 (but compare φύζα, φόβου κρυόεντος ἑταίρη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.2); once in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, οἱ δ᾽ ἔσχοντο φόβου 24.57; frequently in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, Δαναῶν γένετο ἰαχή τε φ. τε 15.396; πρῶτος Πηνέλεως.. ἦρχε φόβοιο 17.597; ἐς φόβον ἀνδρῶν 15.310; φόβονδε ={φύγαδε}, ἑστάμεναι κρατερῶς, μηδὲ τρωπᾶσθε φόβονδε [prev. work] 666)]; φόβονδ᾽ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους [Refs (8.139)]; μή τι φόβονδ᾽ ἀγόρευε counsel not to flight,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5.252; ἀΐξαντα φόβονδε 17.579; ὦρσαν φόβον Δαναοῖς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.145.)]
2 Φόβος personified, as son of Ares, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.299; Δεῖμός τε Φ. τε 11.37, compare 4.440, 15.119, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 934, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 45)]; worshipped at Selinus, [Refs (“IG” 14.268.2.)]
II panic fear, [στρατῷ] φ. ἐμβάλλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10. ; ἐν τῷ γινομένῳ φ. [prev. author] 9.69)]; generally, fear, terror (distinguished from δέος (which see)), τορὸς ὀρθόθριξ φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 32 (Lyric poetry); διάτορος φ. [prev. author] “Pr.” 183 (Lyric poetry); ταρβόσυνος [prev. author] “Th.” 240 (Lyric poetry); νεανικός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1204)]; joined with δέος and δεῖμα, (see entry).; opposed to θάρρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 644c)]; sometimes in milder sense, doubt, scruple, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 101b)]; ἔχει πολλὴν ὑποψίαν καὶ φ. ὡς.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 268a)]: also, awe, reverence, for a ruler or divine being, τοῦ ἡγεμόνος [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1642.17 (3rd c.AD))]; θεοῦ [LXX+4th c.AD+ (LXX.Psa.35(36).1, “PLond.” 2.418.4 (4th c.AD): τοῦκυρίου NT.Act.931)].—Construction, a. with genitive object, fear or dread of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 116 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.54, etc.; φ. τοῦ στρατεῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.18: with double _genitive_, ὀμμάτων εἰληφότας φόβον.. τῆς ἐμῆς ἐπεισόδου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 730: with Preps., φ. ἀπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.37 codices; ὁ ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων φ. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.3.53; οὑξ ὀνειράτων φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 929; πρός τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 783; πρός τινας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 16.10, 25.93)]; φ. περὶ τοῦ καρποῦ fear for or concerning.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.88; φ. ἑκάστων πέρι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 20b; ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέλλοντος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.41; τὸν ἐκ τῶν Ἑλλήνων εἰς τοὺς βαρβάρους φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.18)]; τῷ καθ᾽ ἑαντὸν φ. from personal fear, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.2: with)]infinitive, φόβῳ εἰσορᾶν from fear to see, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1342:—for τεθνάναι τῷ φόβῳ τινά, see at {θνῄσκω} I.2.)]
II.b with Verbs, τεύχειν φόβον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1090 (_anapaest meter_); κλάζουσι κώδωνες φ. [prev. author] “Th.” 386; φ. ποιεῖν τοῖς ἵπποις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.18; παρασχεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1113, etc.; παρασκευάζειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.86)]; φόβους ἐμβάλλειν, φόβον ἐνθεῖναί τινι, to strike terror into one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.18, “An.” 7.4.1; ἐνεργάσασθαί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.38, 11.25; ἔδωκ᾽ Ἀπόλλων θῆρας φόβῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.61)]; of the person who feels fear, φόβον λαβεῖν, ἔχειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 39, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 11.11; ἐκ φόβου φ. τρέφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 28: _accusative_ _cognate_, φόβους φοβεῖσθαι, δεδοικέναι, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 360b, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 548)]; τὸν σὸν οὐ ταρβῶ φ. I fear not with thy fear, i.e. not like thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1251)]; Ταντάλου φ. φοβεῖσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 6; ἐς φ. κατιστέατο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.12, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.81; ἐν φ. γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 578e; φ. μ᾽ ἔχει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1243, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1255)]; μοι φ. τις εἰσελήλυθ᾽, μ᾽ ὑπῆλθέ τις φ.,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1324, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1231; τοῖς Ἕλλησι φ. ἐμπίπτει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.19, etc.)]; διὰ φόβου ἔρχομαι, διὰ φόβων γίγνομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 757 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 791b: opposed to φόβον λύειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 270, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 104; διαλῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 241b; φόβους ἐξαίρει τῶν πολιτῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.23; ἀπεληλακέναι τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.10)]; φόβου ἀπαλλάξεσθαι to get rid of it,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 5.2.32; φόβου ἐκλύσασθαί τινα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1002; φόβους ἀπολύεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1415b18)]; φόβου μεθεῖσα (Valck. φόβον) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 555; φόβου ἔξωθεν εἶναι [prev. author] “El.” 901; ἵνα φόβος εἴη στρατεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.3)]; οὐ φ. μὴ.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Mem.” 2.1.25)]; φ. ἐστὶν ὅπως μὴ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 193a)]; but φόβος εἰ πείσω I fear I shall not persuade.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 184 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἡμέας ἔχειφ. τε καὶ δέος ὅκως χρὴ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.115 (φόβος ἦν ὥστε μὴ τέγξαι is corrupt in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1380): adverbial usages, φόβῳ)] by or through fear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 786 (Lyric poetry), “Th.” 240 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἀνάγκῃ καὶ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 554d: with Preps., διὰ φόβον, διὰ τὸν φ., 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 41, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.38, “Cyr.” 3.1.24; ἐκ τίνος φόβο; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 887; μετὰ φόβων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.26; ἄρχειν ξὺν φόβοισι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 585; προαποθνῄσκειν ὑπὸ τοῦ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.25; poetical, ἀμφὶ φόβῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 825 (Lyric poetry))]: plural, not only in Poets, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.27, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 134 (probable reading), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 531, etc.)], but also in Prose, φόβους καὶ δείματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.80; πόνους καὶ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635c; κινδύνους καὶ φ. [prev. author] “Tht.” 173a.)]
II.2 object or cause of terror, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1652)]; φόβος ἀκοῦσαι a terror to hear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.112: _plural_, ἢν φόβους λέγῃ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 917; πολλῶν φ. προσαγομένων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.23.)]