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Strong’s H6102 · Hebrew

עָצֵל

ʻâtsêl · aw-tsale'

Origin from עָצַל (H6101);

Meaning indolent

In the King James Version slothful, sluggard.

In 13 verses of the King James Version

  1. Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
  2. Proverbs 6:9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
  3. Proverbs 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
  4. Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
  5. Proverbs 15:19The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
  6. Proverbs 19:24A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
  7. Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  8. Proverbs 21:25The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
  9. Proverbs 22:13The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
  10. Proverbs 26:13The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
  11. Proverbs 26:14As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
  12. Proverbs 26:15The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
  13. Proverbs 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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