Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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Idleness
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Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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עַצְלוּת
ʻatslûwth · ats-looth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
indolence
Strong's KJV usage: idleness.
Strong's first: Proverbs 31:27Strong's last: Proverbs 31:27
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shiphlûwth · shif-looth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
remissness
Strong's KJV usage: idleness.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 10:18Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:18
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shâqaṭ · shaw-kat'
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to repose (usually figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: appease, idleness, (at, be at, be in, give) quiet(-ness), (be at, be in, give, have, take) rest, settle, be still.
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 16:49Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:49
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Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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idleness
I'DLENESS, noun Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccupied in business; the state of doing nothing. idleness is the parent of vice.
Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. Ecclesiastes 10:18.
1. Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness. This is properly laziness; but idleness is often the effect of laziness, and sometimes this word may be used for it.
2. Unimportance; trivialness.
Apes of idleness
3. Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
4. Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
5. Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as idleness of brain. [Little used.]
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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