עָצֵל
ʻâtsêl · aw-tsale'
indolent
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6101 (עָצַל);
indolent
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: slothful, sluggard.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to pursue the straight path › authority, the one who leads
To see and know that works to pursue the straight path of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָצֵל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 6 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the slothful3 · 21%
- the slothful3 · 21%
- the sluggard2 · 14%
- thou sluggard1 · 7%
- o sluggard1 · 7%
- so is the sluggard1 · 7%
- of the sluggard1 · 7%
- a slothful1 · 7%
- so doth the slothful1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
- Proverbs14
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.