Fearfulness
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
Fearfulness . The adj. ‘fearful’ is often used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] in the sense, not of causing fear, but of feeling it: and ‘fearfulness’ always denotes the emotion of fear. Thus Matthew 8:26 ‘Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?’; Psalms 55:5 ‘Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me.’ In the RV [Note: Revised Version.] of the NT the only meaning of ‘fearful’ is full of fear, the Revisers, Westcott tells us, having purposely retained this use in order that ‘fear,’ ‘fearful,’ and ‘fearfulness’ might all agree in meaning. They have accordingly changed ‘fearful sights’ in Luke 21:11 into ‘terrors.’ The Revisers of the OT, however, had no such thought, and they have left the word unchanged.
King James Dictionary [2]
FE'ARFULNESS, n.
1. Timorousness timidity. 2. State of being afraid awe dread.
A thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders.
3. Terror alarm apprehension of evil.
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Isaiah 33 .
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(n.) The state of being fearful.
