Arats means “dread” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6206 עָרַץ (`arats) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `arats (aw-rats') v. 1. to awe or (intransitive) to dread 2. (hence) to harass It has 15 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include fear, afraid, dread, affrighted, and break. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`arats (aw-rats') v. 1. to awe or (intransitive) to dread 2. (hence) to harass [a primitive root] KJV: be affrighted (afraid, dread, feared, terrified), break, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, shake terribly.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6206. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to tremble
Usage: 1) to tremble, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, break, be terrified, cause to tremble 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cause to tremble, terrify 1b2) to tremble, feel dread 1b) (Niphal) to be awesome, be terrible 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to regard or treat with awe, regard or treat as awful 1c2) to inspire with awe, terrify
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `arats, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6206.
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6206, grouped by book.
Arats (Strong's H6206) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "dread". `arats (aw-rats') v. 1. to awe or (intransitive) to dread 2. (hence) to harass
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H6206 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6206 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fear, afraid, dread, affrighted, break, and feared. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.