Original Word: עָצַל
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: `atsal
Pronunciation: ah-tsale'
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-tsal')
KJV: be slothful
NASB: delay
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. to lean idly, i.e. to be indolent or slack

be slothful

A primitive root; to lean idly, i.e. To be indolent or slack -- be slothful.

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to be sluggish
NASB Translation
delay (1).

[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 אַלתֵּֿעָֽצְלוּ לָלֶכֶת Judges 18:9 be not sluggish in going.

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