μεριμνάω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Deverbative of μέριμνα (mérimna, “anxiety, concern”). Cognates include Latin memor and Sanskrit स्मरति (smarati, “to think, to recollect”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.rim.ná.ɔː/ → /me.rimˈna.o/ → /me.rimˈna.o/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.rim.ná.ɔː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.rimˈna.o/

Verb

μεριμνάω • (merimnáō)

1. I am worried, preoccupied
   • The Bible, Matthew 6:28:

     καὶ περὶ ἐνδύματος τί μεριμνᾶτε; καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν· οὐ κοπιῶσιν οὐδὲ νήθουσιν

     kaì perì endúmatos tí merimnâte; katamáthete tà krína toû agroû pôs auxánousin; ou kopiôsin oudè nḗthousin

     and regarding clothing, why do you worry? See the lillies of the field, how they don't labor or spin (thread), yet they grow

References

• “μεριμνάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μεριμνάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μεριμνάω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μεριμνάω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “μεριμνάω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3105 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible