Sluggish
עָצֵלStrong’s H6102atsel (a-tsel)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atsel is the Hebrew word usually translated “sluggard”, “o sluggard” and “lazy”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:”
Meaning
- Sluggish, lazysluggard (subst)
How it's translated
- a sluggard 9
- o sluggard 2
- the sluggard 1
- lazy 1
- and a sluggard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 14
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 6:9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- Proverbs 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
- Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Proverbs 15:19The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- Proverbs 19:24A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
- Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Hebrew dictionary
עָצֵל atsel · sluggish
1) sluggish, lazy 1a) sluggard (subst)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sluggish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLUG'GISH, adjective
- Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as a sluggish man.
- Slow; having little motion; as a sluggish river or stream.
- Inert; inactive; having no power to move itself.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.