Sluggishness
עַצְלָהStrong’s H6103atslah (ats-lah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atslah is the Hebrew word usually translated “laziness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
Meaning
- Sluggishness, laziness
How it's translated
- laziness 1
- in laziness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עַצְלָה atslah · sluggishness
sluggishness, laziness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sluggishness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLUG'GISHNESS, noun
- Natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness; applied to persons.
- Inertness; want of power to move; applied to inanimate matter.
- Slowness; as the sluggishness of a steam.
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.