Anxiety
שַׂרְעַפִּיםStrong’s H8312saraph (sar-aph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saraph is the Hebrew word usually translated “disquieting thoughts my”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.”
Meaning
- Disquieting thoughts, thoughts
How it's translated
- disquieting thoughts my 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שַׂרְעַפִּים saraph · anxiety
disquieting thoughts, thoughts
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.