ἀμέριμν-ος G0275
free from care or anxiety, unconcerned, without worry
This adjective describes being free from anxious care or worry. In Matthew 28:14, the soldiers are promised that if the governor hears about their sleeping on watch, "we will satisfy him and make you ἀμερίμνους"—keep you free from worry or trouble. Paul uses it in 1 Corinthians 7:32 to say he wants believers to be ἀμερίμνους—free from anxieties—contrasting the undivided devotion possible for the unmarried with the divided concerns of married life. The classical background includes both positive freedom from care and passive neglect. Paul employs the positive sense, desiring believers' freedom for focused devotion.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The freedom from concern theme runs through translations: Spanish 'sin preocupaciones' (without worries), French 'sans souci,' German preserving the Greek. Matthew's context involves removing legal jeopardy, while Paul's addresses spiritual focus free from divided loyalties. Both involve removing causes of anxiety, though to different ends—one to protect from trouble, the other to enable undistracted devotion to the Lord. 2×
AR["آمِنينَ", "بِلا-هَمٍّ"]·ben["চিন্তাহীন", "নিশ্চিন্ত"]·DE["ἀμερίμνους"]·EN["free-from-care", "free-from-concern"]·FR["sans-souci"]·heb["לְלֹא-דְאָגִים", "לְלֹא־דְאָגָה"]·HI["चिन्ता-रहित", "निश्चिंत"]·ID["tanpa-kekuatiran", "tanpa-khawatir"]·IT["amerimnous", "senza-preoccupazione"]·jav["boten-khawatir", "tanpa-kuwatir"]·KO["걱정-없는", "걱정-없는-자들로"]·PT["sem-preocupações"]·RU["беззаботными"]·ES["sin-preocupaciones", "sin-preocupación"]·SW["bila-wasiwasi", "salama"]·TR["kaygısız"]·urd["بے-فکر"]
Related Senses
G2309 1. want, desire (166×)G0025 1. to love actively (133×)H0157 1. love (verb, active Qal) (129×)H8055 1. Qal: rejoice, be glad (123×)H7453 1. neighbor, fellow man (120×)G0026 1. of love (115×)H1058 1. Qal: to weep, cry (112×)H0954 1. to be ashamed, feel shame (Qal) (95×)H8057 1. joy, gladness, delight (90×)H2781 1. disgrace, shame, dishonor (68×)G2307 1. will, desire, purpose (63×)G5463 1. rejoice, be glad (63×)G0027 1. beloved (61×)H8130 1. Qal: to hate, detest (60×)G5479 1. (59×)G1680 1. (53×)H8130 2. Qal ptcp: hater, enemy (53×)H0014 1. be willing, want (51×)H0157 2. lover, friend (Qal participle substantive) (51×)H1945 1. woe (50×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀμέριμν-ος, ον, free from care, unconcerned, Refs 5th c.BC+adverb -νως Vett. Val.355.6, Refs 2nd c.AD+: comparative -ότερον, ἔχεινRefs 1st c.AD+ __II passive, uncared for, Refs 5th c.BC+ __III οἰνοχοεῖ κρήνης ἐξ ἀμεριμνοτέρης, either causing less care, i.e. more easily attained, of the fount of inspiration, or possibly less celebrated, Refs __IV ἀμέριμνον, τό, ={ἀείζωον μέγα}, Refs 1st c.AD+