Proverbs 10:26:6Prov.10.26.W6TAB
הֶ֝עָצֵ֗ל
heatsel
“the sluggard”
- Transliteration
- he-a-TSEL
- Extended
- heh-ah-TSEEL
- IPA
- /hɛʕaːˈtseːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- the sluggard
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
he-a-TSEL
- phraseyour reading level
KEN he-a-TSEL
- clause
KEN he-a-TSEL le-sho-le-KHA-v
- sentence
ka-KHO-mets la-shi-NA-yim ve-khe-A-shan la-e-NA-yim KEN he-a-TSEL le-sho-le-KHA-v
Exegesis
Heatzel lesholchav {הֶעָצֵל לְשֹלְחָיו | he-ʿāṣēl lə-šōl-ḥāyw} ‘the sluggard to those who send him’ replicates the simile’s effect-recipient pattern to emphasize social inconvenience. English rendering preserves the balanced parallelism and shifts to SVO order for readability.
Root and etymology
ʿ-ṣ-layin–ṣade–lamed
“laziness”
In context — Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 10:26:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Proverbs 10:26, so the Hebrew word הֶ֝עָצֵ֗ל (heatsel) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Prov.10.26.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.10.26.W6.S1) and character.