STRONGS NUMBER H6101


Word Summary
atsel: to be sluggish
Original Word: עָצַל
Transliteration: atsel
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-tsal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be sluggish
Meaning: to lean idly, to be indolent, slack
Strong's Concordance
be slothful

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6101. atsel

[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 לָלֶכֶת אַלתֵּֿעָֽצְלוּJudges 18:9 be not sluggish in going.