Words the Bible translates as slothful
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- atselעָצֵלlazy and sluggish; the habitually work-avoiding person Proverbs calls the sluggard
- nōthrosνωθρόςsluggish: a blameworthy dullness and slackness that leaves a person slow to take in what is taught and slow to follow through on it
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