עָצֵל
ʻâtsêl · H6102 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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lazy person, sluggard
A person who is reluctant to work or make an effort; associated with foolishness
ExamplesProverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise,
Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie down, you lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep?
Proverbs 10:26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy one to those who send him.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- טָמַןto hide oneself 2
- אָמַרto say 2
- חָרַשׁto be silent, to plow, to devise 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָכָםwise 1
- כֵּןthus 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
- תַּאֲוָהdesire, longing, craving 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ὀκνηρός oknērós · G3636 · lazy, lacking in ambition, bothersome
- Greek ὀκνηρός (oknerós) renders Hebrew עָצֵל ('āṣēl) as the standard LXX equivalent for moral/character laziness, both denoting habitual sluggishness and unwillingness to work.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Lazy002001002017
- עָצֵל describes a sluggard, the person characterized by laziness and repeatedly held up as a cautionary figure in Proverbs.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6102. atsel עָצֵל14 adjective sluggish, lazy; — always ׳י absolute; — ׳אִישׁעֿ Pro…
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
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