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Where does “יִרְאַת” come from?
יִרְאַת (Hebrew) comes from Hebrew שמים, from Proto-Semitic šamāy- — sky, heaven.
Ancestry of “יִרְאַת”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Hebrew
שמים
The sky, skies, heavens, heaven; God
2
Proto-Semitic
šamāy-
sky, heaven
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