Hebrew adjective · H6102
עָצֵל
atselaw-tsale'
sluggish
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâtsêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6102is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6102
indolent
The King James renders it: slothful, sluggard.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
atsel is rendered "sluggish". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 6:6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
Proverbs 6:6עָצֵ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's fourteen uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a sluggard9
- O sluggard2
- and a sluggard1
- lazy1
- the sluggard1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָצֵב | atseb | worker | Uses1 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עָצֵ֣ל6
- עָ֭צֵל3
- עָצֵ֑ל2
- הֶ֝עָצֵ֗ל1
- וְ֝עָצֵ֗ל1
- עָצֵ֥ל׀1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular12HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
Proverbs
fourteen uses
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
- עָצֵ֑לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: O sluggard
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
- עָצֵ֥ל׀ʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: O sluggard
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
- הֶ֝עָצֵ֗לheatzelthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the sluggard
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
- עָצֵ֑לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
- עָ֭צֵלʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.
- עָצֵ֣לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
- עָצֵ֣לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
- עָצֵ֣לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
- עָ֭צֵלʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
- עָצֵ֣לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: lazy
The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”
- עָ֭צֵלʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
- וְ֝עָצֵ֗לveatzelconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a sluggard
The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
- עָצֵ֣לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
- עָצֵ֣לʾatzeladjective · masculine singulartagged: a sluggard
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.