ὀκνηρός
oknērós · G3636 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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lazy, lacking in ambition
Pertaining to shrinking from or hesitating to engage in something worthwhile, possibly implying lack of ambition
ExamplesMatthew 25:26 “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter seed?
Romans 12:11 not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
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bothersome, to be a bother, not to mind (with οὐκ)
Pertaining to being bothersome
ExamplesPhilippians 3:1 Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble for me, and it is a safeguard for you.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- עָצֵל ʻâtsêl · H6102 · lazy person, sluggard
- עָצֵל (ʻâtsêl, H6102) and ὀκνηρός (oknērós, G3636) both denote a person characterized by laziness or reluctance to work, with the Greek term encompassing both the tardiness aspect and the resulting irksome quality of indolence that the Hebrew term captures as slothfulness.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Bothersome, to be a bother to not mind (in combination with οὐκ)22.8
- Introducing a repeated exhortation, Philippians 3:1 states “To write the same things again is no trouble for me, and it is a safeguard for you,” where “is no trouble” renders this adjective negated, describing a repetition that causes no bother.
- Lazy, lacking in ambition88.250
- Rebuking the unproductive servant, Matthew 25:26 states “his master answered and said to him, ‘You worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow?’” where “lazy” renders this same adjective in its core sense of habitual idleness.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀκνηρά, ὀκνηρόν (ὀκνέω), sluggish, slothful, backward: Mt 25:26; with a dative of respect…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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