Deuteronomy 7:10
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
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Slack
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2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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רָפָה
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: Joshua 10:6Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:16
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ʼâchar · aw-khar'
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to loiter (i.e. be behind); by implication to procrastinate
Strong's KJV usage: continue, defer, delay, hinder, be late (slack), stay (there), tarry (longer).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:10Strong's last: Deuteronomy 23:21
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bradýnō · brad-oo'-no
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to delay
Strong's KJV usage: :--be slack, tarry.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 3:9Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:9
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ʻâtsâr · aw-tsar'
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
Strong's KJV usage: × be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, × reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).
Strong's first: 2 Kings 4:24Strong's last: 2 Kings 4:24
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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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 10:4Strong's last: Proverbs 10:4
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H7503
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
H7503
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
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slack
SLACK, adjective
1. Not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as a slack rope; slack rigging; slack shrouds.
2. Weak; remiss; not holding fast; as a slack hand.
3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence; not earnest or eager; as slack in duty or service; slack in business.
4. Not violent; not rapid; slow; as a slack pace.
SLACK IN STAYS, in seamen's language, slow in going about; as a ship.
SLACK WATER, in seamen's language, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.
SLACK, adverb Partially; insufficiently; not intensely; as slack dried hops; bread slack baked.
SLACK, noun The part of a rope that hangs loose, having no stress upon it.
SLACK, SLACK'EN, verb intransitive
1. To become less tense, firm or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
2. To be remiss or backward; to neglect. Deuteronomy 23:21.
3. To lose cohesion or the quality of adhesion; as, lime slacks and crumbles into power.
4. To abate; to become less violent. Whence these raging fires will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.
5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens; the tide slackens.
6.To languish; to fail; to flag.
SLACK, SLACK'EN, verb transitive
1. To lessen tension; to make less tense or tight; as, to slacken a rope or a bandage.
2. To relax; to remit; as, to slacken exertion or labor.
3. To mitigate; to diminish in severity; as, to slacken pain.
4. To become more slow; to lessen rapidity; as, to slacken one's pace.
5. To abate; to lower; as, to slacken the heat of a fire.
6. To relieve; to unbend; to remit; as, to slacken cares.
7. To withhold; to use less liberally.
8. To deprive or cohesion; as, to slack lime.
9. To repress; to check. I should be griev'd young prince, to think my presence unbent you thoughts and slacken'd 'em to arms.
10. To neglect. slack not the good presage.
11. To repress, or make less quick or active.
SLACK, noun Small coal; coal broken into small parts.
SLACK, noun A valley or small shallow dell.
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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