Sluggishness
עַצְלוּתStrong’s H6104atslut (ats-lut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Atslut is the Hebrew word usually translated “laziness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
Meaning
- Sluggishness, laziness
How it's translated
- laziness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עַצְלוּת atslut · 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.