Anxiety
דְּאָגָהStrong’s H1674deagah (de-a-gah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Deagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “anxiety” and “from anxiety”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?”
Meaning
- Anxiety, anxious care, care
How it's translated
- anxiety 2
- and in anxiety 2
- from anxiety 1
- in anxiety 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Joshua 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 12:25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
- Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
- Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
- Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
- Ezekiel 12:19And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Hebrew dictionary
דְּאָגָה deagah · anxiety
anxiety, anxious care, care
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “anxiety” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ANXI'ETY, noun
angzi'ety. [Latin anxietas, from anxius, solicitous; Latin ango. See Anger.]
- concern or solicitude respecting some event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness. it expresses more than uneasiness or disturbance, and even more than trouble or solicitude. it usually springs from fear or serious apprehension of evil, and involves a suspense respecting an event, and often, a perplexity of mind, to know how to shape our conduct.
- In medical language, uneasiness; unceasing restlessness in sickness.
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.