Quick Definition
be sluggish
Strong's Definition
to lean idly, i.e. to be indolent or slack
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: be slothful.
TWOT Reference: 1672
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) (Niphal) to be sluggish
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָצֵל (a.tsal) — be sluggish. (Niphal) to be sluggish
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עָצֵל · עַצְלָה · עַצְלוּת · עֲצַלְתַּיִם
Lazy | verb nif
to be reluctant, to be lazy, to be slothful = state in which humans are reluctant to work or make an effort
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָצֵל] vb. Niph. be sluggish;—Ju 18:9 ref