דָּאַג
da.ag (H1672)
be anxious
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# The Hebrew Word for Anxiety: דָּאַג (da.ag) The Hebrew verb *da.ag* carries the meaning "to be anxious" or "to worry," appearing seven times throughout the biblical text. This relatively infrequent word denotes an internal emotional state—the experience of concern or unease rather than its external expression. The term captures a distinctly psychological condition rather than a physical action, marking it as part of Hebrew's vocabulary for emotional and mental experiences. Given its limited occurrences in Scripture, *da.ag* appears to have been a recognized but not dominant term for expressing anxiety in biblical Hebrew. The word's presence across seven separate instances suggests it was employed when writers specifically wanted to convey the particular nuance of anxious worry or concern. Without additional contextual data from the lexicon provided, the precise theological or narrative contexts where this word appears cannot be determined, but its selection by biblical authors indicates it held meaningful communicative value for describing human emotional distress and apprehension.
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When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for us.”
When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?” ’
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”
then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.