Original Word: עָצַל Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: atsel Phonetic Spelling: (aw-tsal') Short Definition: delay
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin a prim. root Definition to be sluggish NASB Translation delay (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[עָצֵל] verb Niph`albe sluggish (Late Hebrew in derived species, and derivatives; compare Arabic III. stick fast in coitu, Lane2086; Syriac be stupid); — Imperfect2masculine plural אַלתֵּֿעָֽצְלוּ לָלֶכֶת Judges 18:9be not sluggish in going.
Strong's
be slothful
A primitive root; to lean idly, i.e. To be indolent or slack -- be slothful.