μέριμνα
mérimna · G3308 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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anxiety, worry, anxious concern
A feeling of apprehension or distress in view of possible danger or misfortune
ExamplesMatthew 13:22 “And the one sown with seed among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Mark 4:19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Luke 8:14 “And the seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked by worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and they bring no fruit to maturity.
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to put one’s cares upon, to leave one’s worries to
(An idiom, literally: to cast cares upon) To stop worrying and to put one’s trust in someone
Examples1 Peter 5:7 having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares about you.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- αἰώνage, forever 2
- ἐκκλησίαcongregation, church 1
- σύyou 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βιωτικόςof this life 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡμέραday 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- συμπνίγωto cause plants to die 2
- εἰσπορεύομαιto enter, to go into 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπιῤῥίπτωto throw on 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὑπόby, under 3
- ἐνin 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Anxiety, worry, anxious concern25.224
- This sense denotes the state of being anxious or worried. Matthew 13:22 states that “the anxiety of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”
- To put one’s cares upon, to leave one’s worries to25.250
- This sense denotes transferring one's anxieties to another. 1 Peter 5:7 states, “having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares about you.”
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μεριμνᾷς, ἡ (from μερίζω, μερίζομαι, to be drawn in different directions, cf. (English…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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