The corpus record

ἔμφοβ-ος

emphobos

terrible, in fear, timorous, terrified, frightened

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Where it lives

Acts 2 · 1.11/10k
Luke 2 · 1.04/10k
Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k

What it meant

ἔμφοβ-ος · emphob-os — LSJ

terrible

terrible, θεαί S. OC 39.

II in fear, timorous, terrified, frightened

Pass., in fear, timorous, ὕπειξις τῆς ψυχῆς Thphr. Char. 25.1; terrified, frightened, LXX Si. 19.24, Ev.Luc. 24.5, al., Bull.Soc.Alex. 6.45. Adv. -βως Hsch. s.v. ὀρρωδέως.

In the wild

ἔμφοβος · emphobos New Testament, Acts 10.4 (DIORISIS sentence 328)
ἔμφοβος · emphobos New Testament, Acts 24.25 (DIORISIS sentence 834)
ἔμφοβοι · emphoboi New Testament, Luke 24.37 (DIORISIS sentence 1273)
ἐμφόβων · emphobōn New Testament, Luke 24.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1239)
ἔμφοβοι · emphoboi New Testament, Revelation 11.13 (DIORISIS sentence 206)
ἔμφοβος · emphobos Septuaginta, Siracides 19

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Where it came from

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