adjective
nōthros
Strong’sG3576
dull, sluggish
stem nōthr-2 times in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
νωθρός, -ά, -όν,
[in LXX: Pr 22:29 (חָשֹׁךְ), Si 4:29 11:12*;]
SYN.: ἀργός (q.v.), βραδύς.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3576 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidno-thros'
sluggish, i.e. (literally) lazy, or (figuratively) stupid
Fromfrom a derivative of G3541;
King Jamesdull, slothful.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={νωθής}, Refs 5th c.BC+; καταφορὴ ν. falling into a heavy sleep, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb - θρῶς Refs 4th c.BC+ I; leisurely, gradually, Refs 5th c.BC+: neuter as adverb, ὄμμασι νωθρὰ βλέπουσα Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 of the mind, ν. καὶ λήθης γέμοντες Refs 5th c.BC+; στόματα Refs 4th c.BC+; ν. καὶ μωροί Refs 4th c.BC+. adverb ἀγεννῶς καὶ νωθρῶς Refs 2nd c.BC+
II active, making sluggish, νότοι Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nōthros | nōthras | nōthrem | nōthrois2×νωθροὶ | nōthrais | nōthreim |
| object accusative | nōthron | nōthran | nōthroin | nōthrain | ||
| direct address vocative | nōthror | nōthrar | nōthroir | nōthrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | nōthrou | nōthrau | nōthreu | nōthroiu | nōthraiu | nōthreiu |
| to, for dative | nōthro | nōthra | nōthre | nōthroi | nōthrai | nōthrei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
nōthr is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
nōthrois“dull”subjectnominative plural2×
Hebrews 5:11… tos logos kai dusermēneutos legarō, epei nōthrois genavē tai akoai;… hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
Hebrews 6:12hina mē nōthrois geneveia, mimētois de toiu dia pistiau …Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through …