Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Fight, or (v.) To become ragged at the ends. 2. (v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. 3. (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray. 4. (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head. 5. (v. i.) To rub. 6. (v. i.) To wear out or into shreds, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. 7. (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FRAY fra (haradh, "to make afraid," "cause to tremble": the King James Version of Deuteronomy 28:26 Jeremiah 7:33 Zechariah 1:21; the Revised Version (British and American) "frighten," "terrify"). See WAR.

Multi-Version Concordance Fray (4 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 28:26 And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. (KJV) Job 39:21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men. (See NIV) Jeremiah 7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. (KJV) Zechariah 1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. (KJV)