Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
be sluggish
Usage: (Niphal) to be sluggish
Atsal means “be slothful” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6101 עָצַל (`atsal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `atsal (aw-tsal') v. 1. to lean idly, i.e. to be indolent or slack [a primitive root] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include slothful. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`atsal (aw-tsal') v. 1. to lean idly, i.e. to be indolent or slack [a primitive root] KJV: be slothful.
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be sluggish
Usage: (Niphal) to be sluggish
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `atsal, 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 Old Testament. 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.
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1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H6101.
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6101, grouped by book.
Atsal (Strong's H6101) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be slothful". `atsal (aw-tsal') v. 1. to lean idly, i.e. to be indolent or slack [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H6101 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6101 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as slothful. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.