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# דָּאַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1672

**be anxious** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be anxious [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1672/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּאַג: vb. be anxious, concerned, fear fear, dread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1672/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be anxious, concerned, fear (Talm. דְּאֵיג, דְּאִג id.)— Pf. 3 ms. וְדָאַג consec. 1 S 9:5; 10:2; 2 fs. דָּאַגְתְּ Is 57:11; Impf. 3 ms. יִדְאָ֑ג Je 17:8; אֶדְאַג ψ 38:19; Pt. דֹּאֵג Je 38:19, דֹּאֲגִים Je 42:16;— be anxious, concerned, with reference to, in behalf of, c. לְ 1 S 9:5; 10:2; id. c. מִן Je 42:16 (famine personif.); sq. מֵחַטָּאתִי ψ 38:19; be anxious, abs. Je 17:8 (‖ יָרֵא). fear, dread, sq. acc. of pers. feared Is 57:11 (‖ יָרֵא) Je 38:19 (where also sq. cl. with פֶּן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I am anxious (1); \[am\] dreading (1); \[are\] anxious (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.19/#tree)

כִּֽי־עֲוֺנִ֥י אַגִּ֑יד אֶ֝דְאַ֗ג מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) iniquity my I.tell I.am.anxious from sin my

*JPS 1917:* For I do declare mine iniquity; I am full of care because of my sin.

[Jeremiah 38:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.19/#tree)

וַיֹּ֛אמֶר הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ אֲנִ֧י דֹאֵ֣ג אֶת־הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָֽפְלוּ֙ אֶל־הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים פֶּֽן־יִתְּנ֥וּ אֹתִ֛י בְּיָדָ֖ם וְהִתְעַלְּלוּ־בִֽי׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.said the king Zedekiah to Jeremiah I \[am\].dreading (et) the Judeans who they.have.fallen to the Chaldeans lest they.should.give me in hand their and they.will.deal.wantonly with me

*JPS 1917:* And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah: 'I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1672.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1672/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).