# G3309 μεριμνάω

μεριμνάω (merimnáō), Strong’s G3309: to be anxious about KJV: (be, have) care(-ful), take thought. Occurs 30 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G3309 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*merimnáō* — to be anxious about

KJV: (be, have) care(-ful), take thought

Derived from [μέριμνα mérimna](https://besorah.bible/word/G3308) (solicitude)

Occurs 30 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 6:25](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=25) — Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body…
- [Matthew 6:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=27) — “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
- [Matthew 6:28](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=28) — Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they…
- [Matthew 6:31](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=31) — “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
- [Matthew 6:34](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=34) — Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
- [Matthew 10:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/10?v=19) — But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you…
- [Matthew 13:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/13?v=22) — What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of…
- [Luke 8:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/8?v=14) — What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares…
- [Luke 10:41](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=41) — Yeshua answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
- [Luke 12:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=11) — When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will…