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# עָצֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6102

**sluggish** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sluggish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6102/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצֵל²: adj. sluggish, lazy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6102/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. sluggish, lazy;—always ע׳ abs.;—אִישׁ־ע׳ Pr 24:30; elsewhere subst. sluggard Pr 6:6, 9 + 10 times Pr + הֶע׳ 10:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sluggard (8); O sluggard (2); of a sluggard (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.6/#tree)

לֵֽךְ־אֶל־נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה דְרָכֶ֣יהָ וַחֲכָֽם׃

*Word for word:* go to an.ant O.sluggard consider ways its and become.wise

*JPS 1917:* Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;

[Proverbs 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.9/#tree)

עַד־מָתַ֖י עָצֵ֥ל ׀ תִּשְׁכָּ֑ב מָ֝תַ֗י תָּק֥וּם מִשְּׁנָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* until when? O.sluggard will.you.lie.down when? will.you.rise from sleep your

*JPS 1917:* How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6102.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6102/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).