Lexical Summary
oknéros: Slothful, lazy, idle
Original Word: ὀκνηρός
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: oknéros
Pronunciation: ok-nay-ROS
Phonetic Spelling: (ok-nay-ros')
KJV: grievous, slothful
NASB: lagging behind, lazy, trouble
Word Origin: [from G3635 (ὀκνέω - delay)]
1. tardy, i.e. indolent
2. (figuratively) irksome
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
lazy, slothful.
From okneo; tardy, i.e. Indolent; (figuratively) irksome -- grievous, slothful.
see GREEK okneo
HELPS Word-studies
3636 oknērós(from 3635 /oknéō, "to delay") – properly, hesitate and hence be tardy (delayed); (figuratively) reluctant, slothful, indolent ("dragging one's feet").
3636 /oknērós ("indolent") refers to a reluctant attitude, unwilling to act (participate) – i.e. slothful (lazy), unambitious, disinterested.
[In classical Greek 3636 /oknērós ("indolent") refers to "shrinking backward, because unready. The idea of 'delay' underlies the secondary sense, 'burdensome, troublesome.' It is the vexation arising from weary waiting, and which appears in the middle English irken (to tire or to become tired), cognate with the Latin urgere (to press), and English irk (irksome, work)" (WS, 884).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
okneóDefinitionshrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome
NASB Translationlagging behind (1), lazy (1), trouble (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3636: ὀκνηρόςὀκνηρός,
ὀκνηρά,
ὀκνηρόν (
ὀκνέω),
sluggish, slothful, backward:
Matthew 25:26; with a dative of respect (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 31, 6 a.;
Buttmann, § 133, 21),
Romans 12:11;
οὐκ ὀκνηρόν μοι ἐστι, followed by an infinitive,
is not irksome to me, I am not reluctant, Philippians 3:1 (cf.
Lightfoot at the passage). (
Pindar,
Sophocles,
Thucydides,
Demosthenes,
Theocritus, etc.; the
Sept. for
עָצֵל.)
