Exodus 5:8
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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1 Timothy 5:13
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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ἀργός
argós · ar-gos'
6 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless
Strong's KJV usage: :--barren, idle, slow.
Strong's first: Matthew 12:36Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:13
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râphâh · raw-faw'
3 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See 7495.
Strong's first: Exodus 5:8Strong's last: Exodus 5:17
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rᵉmîyâh · rem-ee-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
remissness, treachery
Strong's KJV usage: deceit(-ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 19:15Strong's last: Proverbs 19:15
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And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
H7503
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
H7503
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
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idle
I'DLE, adjective
1. Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing.
Why stand ye here all the day idle? Matthew 20:3.
To be idle is to be vicious.
2. Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; as an idle man; an idle fellow.
3. Affording leisure; vacant; not occupied; as idle time; idle hours.
4. Remaining unused; unemployed; applied to things; as, my sword or spear is idle
5. Useless; vain; ineffectual; as idle rage.
6. Unfruitful; barren; not productive of good.
Of antres vast and idle desarts.
Idle weeds.
7. Trifling; vain; of no importance; as an idle story; an idle reason; idle arguments.
8. Unprofitable; not tending to edification.
Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. Matthew 12:36.
Idle differs from lazy; the latter implying constitutional or habitual aversion or indisposition to labor or action, sluggishness; whereas idle in its proper sense, denotes merely unemployed. An industrious man may be idle but he cannot be lazy.
I'DLE, verb intransitive To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
To idle away, in a transitive sense, to spend in idleness; as, to idle away time.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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