Senses
1. anxiety, care, worry — Anxious concern or preoccupying worry about life circumstances, whether worldly cares that choke the word (Matt 13:22; Mark 4:19; Luke 8:14; 21:34), the care of the churches weighing on an apostle (2 Cor 11:28), or the general anxiety one is urged to cast upon God (1 Pet 5:7). All multilingual glosses converge: Arabic hamm/ihtimam, German Sorge, French souci, Hebrew de'agah, Hindi chinta, Korean geokjeong/yeomryeo, Spanish preocupacion/afan. 6×
AR["الاهْتِمامُ","هَمُّ","هَمِّكُم","هُمومٍ","هُمومُ","هُمومِ"]·ben["চিন্তা","চিন্তায়","চিন্তার"]·DE["Sorge","μέριμνα","μερίμναις","μεριμνῶν"]·EN["anxieties","anxiety","care","cares"]·FR["souci"]·heb["בְּ-דְאָגוֹת","דְּאָגַת","דְּאָגָה","דְּאָגוֹת"]·HI["चिन्तअ","चिन्ता","चिन्ताएँ","चिन्ताओं","चिन्ताओं-से"]·ID["kekhawatiran","kekuatiran","kepedulian"]·IT["merimna","merimnai","merimnais","merimnan","merimnon","preoccupazione"]·jav["kaprihatinan","kuatosing","kuwatos","sumelang","sumelangé"]·KO["걱정들과","걱정을","걱정이다","염려가","염려들에","염려들이"]·PT["cuidados","preocupação","preocupações"]·RU["забот","забота","заботах","заботу","заботы","попечение"]·ES["afanes","ansiedad","preocupaciones","preocupación"]·SW["masumbufu","wasiwasi"]·TR["endişelerle,","endişesi","kaygılarla","kaygıları","kaygınızı","kaygısı"]·urd["فکر","فکروں","فکریں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
μέριμν-α, ἡ, care, thought, solicitude, ὅν τε θαμιναὶ ἐπιστρωφῶσι μέριμναι Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. τινός care for.., Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, cares, Refs 8th c.BC+—Rare in early Prose, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. καὶ φροντίςNT+2nd c.AD+ __2 concrete, object of care or thought, μεγάλην σε πατὴρ ἐφύτευσε μ. θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποισι Refs __3 pursuit, ambition, especially in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+ __4 Κηΐα μ. the Cean…