# H6102 עָצֵל

עָצֵל (ʻâtsêl), Strong’s H6102: indolent KJV: slothful, sluggard.. Occurs 14 times.

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*ʻâtsêl* — indolent

KJV: slothful, sluggard.

Derived from [עָצַל ʻâtsal](https://besorah.bible/word/H6101) (to lean idly, i.e. to be indolent or slack)

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָצֵל 14 adj. sluggish, lazy

## Where it occurs
- [Proverbs 6:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/6?v=6) — Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
- [Proverbs 6:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/6?v=9) — How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
- [Proverbs 10:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/10?v=26) — As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
- [Proverbs 13:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/13?v=4) — The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
- [Proverbs 15:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/15?v=19) — The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
- [Proverbs 19:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/19?v=24) — The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
- [Proverbs 20:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/20?v=4) — The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- [Proverbs 21:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=25) — The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
- [Proverbs 22:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/22?v=13) — The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
- [Proverbs 24:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/24?v=30) — I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.