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Dull

νωθρόςStrong’s G3576

nōthros

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Nōthros is the Greek word usually translated “sluggish”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”
Hebrews 5:11 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “sluggish”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • sluggish 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

νωθρός nōthros · dull

νωθρός, -ά, -όν [in LXX: Pro.22:29 (חָשֹׁךְ), Sir.4:29 11:12 * ;] sluggish, slothful: Heb.5:11 6:12 (for similar usage in π., see MM, xvii). SYN.: ἀργός (which see), βραδύς (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “dull” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DULL, adjective

[G.]

  1. Stupid; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding; as a lad of dull genius.
  2. Heavy; sluggish; without life or spirit; as a surfeit leaves a man very dull
  3. Slow of motion; sluggish; as a dull stream.
  4. Slow of hearing or seeing; as dull of hearing; dull of seeing.
All definitions and other forms of “dull”
  1. Slow to learn or comprehend; unready; awkward; as a dull scholar.
  2. Sleepy; drowsy.
  3. Sad; melancholy.
  4. Gross; cloggy; insensible; as the dull earth.
  5. Not pleasing or delightful; not exhilarating; cheerless; as, to make dictionaries is dull work.
  6. Not bright or clear; clouded; tarnished; as, the mirror is dull
  7. Not bright; not briskly burning; as a dull fire.
  8. Blunt; obtuse; having a thick edge; as a dull knife or ax.
  9. Cloudy; overcast; not clear; not enlivening; as dull weather.
  10. With seamen, being without wind; as, a ship has a dull time.
  11. Not lively or animated; as a dull eye.

DULL, verb transitive

  1. To make dull; to stupify; as, to dull the senses.
  2. To blunt; as, to dull a sword or an ax.
  3. To make sad or melancholy.
  4. To hebetate; to make insensible or slow to perceive; as, to dull the ears; to dull the wits.
  5. To damp; to render lifeless; as, to dull the attention.
  6. To make heavy or slow of motion; as, to dull industry.
  7. To sully; to tarnish or cloud; as, the breath dulls a mirror.

DULL, verb intransitive

To become dull or blunt; to become stupid.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.