דָּאַגdâʼag
be anxious, concerned, fear
Pronunciation: daw-ag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1672
Meanings
Qal
1. be anxious, concerned (1 Samuel 9:5; 1 Samuel 10:2; Jeremiah 42:16)
2. fear, dread (Isaiah 57:11; Jeremiah 38:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 9:5 Finally, they entered the region of Zuph, and Saul said to his servant, “Let’s go home. By now my father will be more worried about us than about the donkeys!”
- 1 Samuel 10:2 When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?’
- Psalms 38:18 But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done.
- Isaiah 57:11 “Are you afraid of these idols? Do they terrify you? Is that why you have lied to me and forgotten me and my words? Is it because of my long silence that you no longer fear me?
- Jeremiah 17:8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.
- Jeremiah 38:19 “But I am afraid to surrender,” the king said, “for the Babylonians may hand me over to the Judeans who have defected to them. And who knows what they will do to me!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).