Bible dictionaries
Sluggard
What Bible dictionaries say about “Sluggard”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Sluggard - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
SLUG'GARD, n. [from slug and ard, slow kind.] A person habitually lazy, idle and inactive; a drone.
SLUG'GARD, a. Sluggish; lazy.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
slug'-ard: Found only in the Old Testament, and there only in Proverbs. It is the rendering given the word 'atsel everywhere in the Revised Version (British and American), but in the King James Version only in Pr 6:6,9; 10:26; 13:4; 20:4; 26:16 (elsewhere the King James Version translates by "slothful"). The root meaning of ['atsel] is "to be sluggish," "stupid." The English word "slug" is said to be "allied to slack" (Webster).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915