יָרֵא

יָרֵא (yare) is the Hebrew adjective or participial form for someone who is afraid or who fears and reveres God. The local Hebrew artifact currently indexes 54 H3373 occurrences. In phrases such as yirei YHWH, the form identifies people by their response to the Lord; context still determines whether an occurrence emphasizes fear, reverence, worship, or covenant loyalty.

Psalm 34:9 addresses the Lord's holy ones and says that those who fear him lack nothing. The following verse compares them with hungry young lions and says that those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. The promise concerns God's care in the psalm's testimony and must not be turned into a guarantee of uninterrupted material comfort.

Psalm 103:11-13 and 17 describe the Lord's steadfast love and fatherly compassion toward those who fear him. The language joins reverence to covenant mercy without making fear an achievement that earns compassion or flattening every occurrence into the same emotional register.

Psalm 22:23 summons those who fear the Lord, together with Jacob's descendants and Israel's offspring, to praise and revere him. Here the expression addresses a worshiping community rather than defining a private spiritual elite.

Malachi 3:16 says that those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, that the Lord listened, and that a book of remembrance was written concerning those who feared him and honored his name. The verse commends faithful speech in its particular setting without claiming that the book is identical to a later canonical book or that every believer must fit a permanent remnant category.

Psalm 112:1 blesses the person who fears the Lord and greatly delights in his commands. Fear and delight stand together in this portrait of faithful life, but the psalm's blessings should be preached as wisdom-shaped testimony rather than a mechanical prosperity formula.

For the preacher, יָרֵא (yare) names people by their reverent response to God and invites communities to praise, trust, and obedience without turning the term into a simple salvation-status label.

The local Hebrew artifact currently indexes 54 occurrences of יָרֵא (yare) as an adjective or participial form. Psalms and Malachi often use it substantivally for those who fear the Lord: they are summoned to praise, promised God's attentive care, described as recipients of steadfast love and compassion, and portrayed as people who delight in his commands. The expression is a commended covenant description, not by itself a technical classification of salvation status or a spiritual elite.