Lexical Summary oknēros: shrinking, timid, idle, lazy, troublesome Original Word: ὀκνηρόςTransliteration: oknēros Phonetic Spelling: (ok-nay-ros') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: shrinking, timid, idle, lazy, troublesome Meaning: shrinking, timid, idle, lazy, troublesome Strong's Concordance lazy, slothful. From okneo; tardy, i.e. Indolent; (figuratively) irksome -- grievous, slothful. see GREEK okneo 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.) |
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