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Godfearer

Godfearer is the alternative form of God-fearer.

Meaning of God-fearer

Noun

God-fearer (plural God-fearers)

  1. A God-fearing person.
  2. (historical) A member of a class of non-Jewish sympathizers to Second Temple Judaism, mentioned in the New Testament and other contemporary sources.

Forms of Godfearer

pluralGodfearers

Questions about Godfearer

What is Godfearer the alternative form of?
Godfearer is the alternative form of God-fearer.

Words near Godfearer in the dictionary

  1. godfatherlike
  2. godfatherly
  3. godfathers
  4. godfathership
  5. godfatherships
  6. Godfearer
  7. Godfearers
  8. godfearing
  9. godform
  10. godforms
  11. godforsaken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Godfearer (page history and authors); God-fearer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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