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Words of Fear and Trembling · 32 headwords

Each word with its meanings, its forms, and the lines it stands in.

Jackel

Jackel once

Jackel

'Mester Jakel' was a stock glove-puppet character (like Punch) in traveling puppet shows in Denmark since c.1790 — Kierkegaard sarcastically compares the sectarian's private 'friends' to a puppeteer's puppets.

Johannes

Johannes once

Johannes

'Johannes de silentio' (Latin: 'John of Silence') is Kierkegaard's pseudonym for this work.

jøde

the Jew once

Jøden

Refers to Richard Cumberland's 1794 play The Jew, whose title character secretly does good despite prejudice against him.

Seen once or twice

Jacob

Jacob once

jam

already; now twice

jammerlig

wretched; pitiful twice

jeder

every once

Jeptha

Jephthah's once

Jern

iron once

jern

irons once

jomfru

virgins; maiden twice

Jomfru

Virgin once

Jomfrubuur

bower once

Jorden

earth; of the earth twice

jubel

rejoicing once

Judas

Judas once

judicium

judgment once

judico

I judged once

juris

of right once

jury

jury once

jus

right once

just

exactly once

The particulars

The words
Every word of the text, parsed: its headword, its form and its meaning in the line. Source text: public domain (Søren Kierkegaard, d. 1855; first published 1843, under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio).
Translation
Public-domain Danish (Kierkegaard, d. 1855; published 1843). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
Data
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