d’l, d’l-nes: Both words, adjective and noun, render different Hebrew words (from , acel, to be lazy, , raphah, to relax, and , shakat, to be quiet). According to the Yahwistic narrative Pharaoh’s retort to the complaints of the Israelites was a charge of indolence (Exo 5:8, Exo 5:17). It was a favorite thought of Hebrew wisdom – practical philosophy of life – that indolence inevitably led to poverty and want (Pro 19:15; Ecc 10:18). The virtuous woman was one who would not eat the bread of idleness (Pro 31:27). In Eze 16:49 for the King James Version abundance of idleness, the Revised Version (British and American) has prosperous ease. In the New Testament idle generally renders the Greek word , argos, literally, inactive, useless (Mat 20:3, Mat 20:6). In Luk 24:11 idle talk corresponds to one Greek word which means empty gossip or nonsensical talk.<\/p>\n
Idle, Idleness d’l, d’l-nes: Both words, adjective and noun, render different Hebrew words (from , acel, to be lazy, , raphah, to relax, and , shakat, to be quiet). According to the Yahwistic narrative Pharaoh’s retort to the complaints of the Israelites was a charge of indolence (Exo 5:8, Exo 5:17). It was a favorite … Continue reading “Idle, Idleness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}