Be anxious
דָּאַגStrong’s H1672daag (da-ag)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daag is the Hebrew word usually translated “anxious”, “is anxious” and “am anxious”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.”
Meaning
- To fear, be anxious, be concerned, be afraid, be careful(Qal)
How it's translated
- and he will be anxious 1
- and he is anxious 1
- i am anxious 1
- did you dread 1
- it will be anxious 1
- dreading 1
- anxious 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 10:2When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
- Psalms 38:18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
- Isaiah 57:11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
- Jeremiah 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Jeremiah 38:19And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- Jeremiah 42:16Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּאַג daag · be anxious
1) to fear, be anxious, be concerned, be afraid, be careful 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be anxious, be concerned 1a2) to fear, dread
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dread” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DREAD, noun
Dred. [Latin, to dread; fearful; to tremble. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to shrink.]
- Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger.
- Awe; fear united with respect.
- Terror.“Shall not his dread fall on you” Job 13:11
- The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded.“Let him be your dread” Isaiah 8:13
All definitions and other forms of “dread”
DREAD, adjective
- Exciting great fear or apprehension.
- Terrible; frightful.
- Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
DREAD, verb transitive
To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.