Idleness
שִׁפְלוּתStrong’s H8220shiphlut (shiph-lut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shiphlut is the Hebrew word usually translated “lowering of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.”
Meaning
- Sinking, idleness, inactivity
How it's translated
- and in lowering of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁפְלוּת shiphlut · idleness
sinking, idleness, inactivity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “idleness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
I'DLENESS, noun
Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccupied in business; the state of doing nothing. idleness is the parent of vice.
- “Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through” Ecclesiastes 10:18
- Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness.
- Unimportance; trivialness.
- Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
All definitions
- Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
- Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as idleness of brain. [Little used.]
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.