Okneros means “grievous” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3636 — kelal (“Chelal”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3636 ὀκνηρός (okneros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. okneros (ok-nay-ros') adj. 1. tardy, i.e. indolent 2. (figuratively) irksome It has 18 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include slothful and grievous. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
okneros (ok-nay-ros') adj. 1. tardy, i.e. indolent 2. (figuratively) irksome [from G3635] KJV: grievous, slothful Root(s): G3635
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3636. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: ὀκνηρός, -ά, -όν (ὀκνέω), [in LXX forPro.6:6, 9 al. ;] shrinking, hesitating, timid: with dative (Bl., § 38, 2), Rom.12:11; hence, slothful: Mat.25:26. Of things, that which causes shrinking, irksome: Php.3:1.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render okneros, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3636 (ὀκνηρός) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
12 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Go to the ant, O sluggard; And see, and emulate his ways, And become wiser than he.
And when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
A gracious wife brings glory to her husband: But a woman hating righteousness is a theme of dishonor. The slothful come to want: But the diligent support themselves with wealth.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, And everyone will hiss him out to his disgrace.
A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: Every man that takes it up will shake his hand.
Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; Neither with a coward in matters of war; Nor with a merchant concerning exchange; Nor with a buyer of selling; Nor with an envious man of thankfulness; Nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; Nor with the slothful for any work; Nor with a hireling for a year of finishing work; Nor with an idle servant of much business: Hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3636.
Go to the ant, O sluggard; And see, and emulate his ways, And become wiser than he.
And when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
A gracious wife brings glory to her husband: But a woman hating righteousness is a theme of dishonor. The slothful come to want: But the diligent support themselves with wealth.
Fear casts down the slothful; And the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.
A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: So also he who borrows corn in harvest.
Desires kill the sluggard; For his hands do not choose to do anything.
There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, And everyone will hiss him out to his disgrace.
A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: Every man that takes it up will shake his hand.
Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; Neither with a coward in matters of war; Nor with a merchant concerning exchange; Nor with a buyer of selling; Nor with an envious man of thankfulness; Nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; Nor with the slothful for any work; Nor with a hireling for a year of finishing work; Nor with an idle servant of much business: Hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3636, grouped by book.
Okneros (Strong's G3636) is a Greek word most simply glossed "grievous". okneros (ok-nay-ros') adj. 1. tardy, i.e. indolent 2. (figuratively) irksome
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G3636 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3636 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as slothful and grievous. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 12 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3636, with linked reader references where each row is available.