Strong's Greek: 3636. ὀκνηρός (oknéros) -- shrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome

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Lexicon

oknéros: shrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome

Original Word: ὀκνηρός, ά, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: oknéros
Phonetic Spelling: (ok-nay-ros')
Short Definition: slothful, backward
Definition: slothful, backward, hesitating; of things: irksome.

HELPS word-Studies

3636 oknērós(from 3635 /oknéō, "to delay") – properly, hesitate and hence be tardy (delayed); (figuratively) reluctant, slothful, indolent ("dragging one's feet").

3636 /oknērós ("indolent") refers to a reluctant attitude, unwilling to act (participate) – i.e. slothful (lazy), unambitious, disinterested.

[In classical Greek 3636 /oknērós ("indolent") refers to "shrinking backward, because unready. The idea of 'delay' underlies the secondary sense, 'burdensome, troublesome.' It is the vexation arising from weary waiting, and which appears in the middle English irken (to tire or to become tired), cognate with the Latin urgere (to press), and English irk (irksome, work)" (WS, 884).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from okneó
Definition
shrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome
NASB Translation
lagging behind (1), lazy (1), trouble (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 3636: ὀκνηρός

ὀκνηρός, ὀκνηρά, ὀκνηρόν (ὀκνέω), sluggish, slothful, backward: Matthew 25:26; with a dative of respect (cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 6 a.; Buttmann, § 133, 21), Romans 12:11; οὐκ ὀκνηρόν μοι ἐστι, followed by an infinitive, is not irksome to me, I am not reluctant, Philippians 3:1 (cf. Lightfoot at the passage). (Pindar, Sophocles, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Theocritus, etc.; the Sept. for עָצֵל.)

Strong's

lazy, slothful.

From okneo; tardy, i.e. Indolent; (figuratively) irksome -- grievous, slothful.

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