One trend in both popular and scholarly literature is to define or describe the fear of the Lord by some other value in the Christian life. In recent history, the fear of the Lord has been defined or described as love, faith, covenant obedience, conscience, wisdom, integrity, covenant loyalty, and general morality. Each of these approaches highlights true characteristics of the fear of the Lord and its relation to the Christian life as a whole. Yet these approaches risk collapsing the fear of the Lord into some other value, thereby losing the distinction of the fear of the Lord as a value all its own. In this paper, I will survey and evaluate some examples of this trend, looking at works by Bernard Bamberger, Michael Horton, Jason Fout, R. W. L. Moberly, and Moshe Weinfeld. I will highlight the strengths and weaknesses found in their treatments of the fear of the Lord. I will then argue for a dispositional approach to the fear of the Lord, drawing on insights from H. H. Price. I will argue that a dispositional approach better accounts for the nuances of the subject and will show how a dispositional approach can maintain the insights of the existing approaches without losing sight of the distinction of the fear of the Lord itself.