שִׁפְלוּת
shiphlûwth · H8220 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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idleness, indolence
Literally: lowness of hands; hence: state in which humans are physically inactive or slow
ExamplesEcclesiastes 10:18 Through extreme laziness the rafters sag, and through idleness the house leaks.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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
- עַצְלוּת ʻatslûwth · H6104 · to be lazy, to be slothful
- Both denote idleness or sloth; distinct lexical roots with overlapping reference to laziness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Lazy002001002017
- This noun denotes slothfulness, as in Ecclesiastes 10:18's observation that through extreme laziness the rafters sag, and through idleness the house leaks.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8220. shiphluth שִׁפְלוּת noun feminine sinking; — construct ׳שׁ יָדִים Ecc 10:18…
שִׁפְלוּת noun feminine sinking; — construct ׳שׁ יָדִים Ecc 10:18 sinking of hands, negligence (|| עֲצַלְתַּ֫יִם).
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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