Awe
Awe
o: Fear mingled with reverence and wonder, a state of mind inspired by something terrible or sublime. In the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) it occurs in Psa 4:4 : Stand in awe, and sin not (where the Revised Version, margin has, Be ye angry, so Septuagint; compare Eph 4:26); Psa 33:8; Psa 119:161. In the following passages the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes stand in awe of for the King James Version fear: Psa 22:23 phoboumenoi; Isa 29:23; 1Sa 18:15; Mal 2:5; and in Heb 12:28 it substitutes awe for the King James Version reverence (deos here only in New Testament). In all these passages, except 1Sa 18:15 (eulabeto, where it describes Saul’s feeling toward David), the word stands for man’s attitude of reverential fear toward God. This is the characteristic attitude of the pious soul toward God in the Scriptures, especially in the Old Testament. It arises from a consciousness of the infinite power, sublimity and holiness of God, which fills the mind with the fear of the Lord, and a dread of violating His law. See FEAR.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Awe
“awe,” is so rendered in Heb 12:28, RV; the previous word “reverence” represents the inferior reading aidos (see SHAMEFASTNESS).