עָצַל
ʻâtsal · H6101 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be reluctant, to be lazy, to be slothful
State in which humans are reluctant to work or make an effort
ExamplesJudges 18:9 And they said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you sit still? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to take possession of the land.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַלnot, do not 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- רָפָה râphâh · H7503 · to grow weak, to be discouraged
- Both words denote inactivity or lack of effort, in the sense of slothfulness, slackness or idleness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Lazy002001002017
- עָצַל means to be slothful, describing a lazy or sluggish disposition.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6101. atsel [עָצֵל] verb Niph`al be sluggish (Late Hebrew in derived species, and…
[עָצֵל] verb Niph`al be sluggish (Late Hebrew in derived species, and derivatives; compare Arabic III. stick fast in coitu, Lane2086; Syriac be stupid); — Imperfect2masculine plural לָלֶכֶת אַלתֵּֿעָֽצְלוּ Jdg 18:9 be not sluggish in going.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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