daag · be anxious

What it means

daag (דָּאַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be anxious”.

Worry about someone or something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To fret; be afraid.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I am anxious ×1
• am anxious about ×1
• are anxious about ×1
• be anxious ×1
• were you anxious ×1
• worried ×1
• worry ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3

• 1 Samuel 9:5

  When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his young man who was with him, “Come, let us go back, or else my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and worry about us.”

• 1 Samuel 10:2

  When you go from me today, you will find two men by the tomb of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to look for have been found, and look, your father has given up the matter of the donkeys and is worried about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

• Psalms 38:18

  For my iniquity I declare; I am anxious because of my sin.

• Isaiah 57:11

  And of whom were you anxious and afraid, that you lied, and me you did not remember, nor laid it on your heart? Is it not that I have been silent, even from long ago, and so me you do not fear?

• Jeremiah 17:8

  And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.

• Jeremiah 38:19

  And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am anxious about the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me.”

• Jeremiah 42:16

  then it will be that the sword that you are afraid of will overtake you there, in the land of Egypt; and the famine that you are anxious about will cling after you there in Egypt, and there you will die.