6101. atsel

Lexicon

atsel: delay

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

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

be slothful

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

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[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.

Forms and Transliterations

תֵּעָ֣צְל֔וּ תעצלו tê‘āṣəlū tê·‘ā·ṣə·lū teAtzeLu

Englishman's Concordance

Judges 18:9
HEB: מַחְשִׁ֔ים אַל־ תֵּעָ֣צְל֔וּ לָלֶ֥כֶת לָבֹ֖א
NAS: And will you sit still? Do not delay to go,
KJV: and [are] ye still? be not slothful to go,
INT: sit nay slothful to go to enter

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 6101
1 Occurrence

tê·‘ā·ṣə·lū — 1 Occ.