דָּאַג
dâʼag · daw-ag'
be anxious
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
be anxious
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be afraid (careful, sorry), sorrow, take thought.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › strength, the leader › to carry, to lift up
The doorway, the way in of strength, the leader that works to carry, to lift up.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּאַג above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
7 occurrences · 7 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and take thought1 · 14%
- and sorroweth1 · 14%
- i will be sorry1 · 14%
- and of whom hast thou been afraid1 · 14%
- and shall not be careful1 · 14%
- i am afraid1 · 14%
- whereof ye were afraid1 · 14%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.