Idleness
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Idleness (4 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. IDLE; IDLENESS. ... The "virtuous woman" was one
who would not eat the "bread of idleness" (Proverbs 31:27). ...
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Idle (33 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as,
to idle away an hour a day. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. IDLE; IDLENESS. ...
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Loaf (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. 3. (vt) To
spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away. Int. ...
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Industry (5 Occurrences)
... diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention
to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays ...
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Sloth (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Slowness; tardiness. 2. (n.) Disinclination
to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. ...
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Vacancy (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from
employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. ...
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Leaks (3 Occurrences)
... Leaks (3 Occurrences). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and
through idleness of the hands the house leaks. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Leaketh (1 Occurrence)
... Leaketh (1 Occurrence). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in;
and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh. (ASV JPS). ...
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Idlers (2 Occurrences)

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Indolence (1 Occurrence)
... sloth; inactivity; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from
love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor. ...
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Framework (6 Occurrences)
... BBE). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in;
and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth. (DBY). ...
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Rafters (5 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through
idleness of the hands the house leaketh. (See JPS NAS NIV). ...
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Rouse (25 Occurrences)
... 6. (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor,
stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. ...
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Rust (7 Occurrences)
... a rusty appearance, as plants. 9. (vi) To degenerate in idleness; to become
dull or impaired by inaction. 10. (vt) To cause to contract ...
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Droppeth (2 Occurrences)
... Droppeth (2 Occurrences). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth;
and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. (KJV WBS) ...
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Dally
... 1. (vi) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness;
to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. ...
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Decayeth (4 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through
idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. (KJV WBS). ...
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Drippeth (1 Occurrence)
... Drippeth (1 Occurrence). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much sloth fulness the framework
falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth. (DBY). ...
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Parent (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the
parent of vice. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PARENT. par'-ent. ...
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Account (460 Occurrences)
... 14. (vi) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with
for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Surveyeth (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Surveyeth (1 Occurrence). Proverbs 31:27 She surveyeth
the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. (DBY). ...
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Slothfulness (3 Occurrences)
... Isaiah (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof
sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks. ...
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Spin (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness. 4.
(vt) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top. ...
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Sinketh (5 Occurrences)
... JPS). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through
idleness of the hands the house leaketh. (ASV). Jeremiah ...
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Sink (16 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the
roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks. ...
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Sinks (6 Occurrences)
... NAS RSV). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through
idleness of the hands the house leaks. (WEB RSV). Isaiah ...
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Drop (32 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through
idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. (Root in KJV WBS YLT). ...
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Looks (76 Occurrences)
... hands. (See NAS). Proverbs 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household,
and doesn't eat the bread of idleness. (WEB NAS RSV). ...
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Roof (55 Occurrences)
... (YLT NAS NIV). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through
idleness of the hands the house leaks. (WEB ASV BBE RSV). ...
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Fulness (76 Occurrences)
... (ASV DBY). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness
of the hands the house leaks. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Thessalonians (6 Occurrences)
... against Vice, and Comfort and Warning in View of the Coming of Christ: (1) Against
gross vice (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8). (2) Against idleness (1 Thessalonians 4:9 ...
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Eateth (81 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). Proverbs 31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household,
and eateth not the bread of idleness. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Hunger (52 Occurrences)
... 34:29 it is replaced in the Revised Version (British and American) by "famine."
The word is used to express the poverty which follows idleness and sloth ...
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Falleth (119 Occurrences)
... (DBY YLT). Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in;
and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth. (DBY). ...
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Paul (207 Occurrences)
... against Vice, and Comfort and Warning in View of the Coming of Christ: (1) Against
gross vice (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8). (2) Against idleness (1 Thessalonians 4:9 ...
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Consist (7 Occurrences)
... against Vice, and Comfort and Warning in View of the Coming of Christ: (1) Against
gross vice (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8). (2) Against idleness (1 Thessalonians 4:9 ...
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First (4693 Occurrences)
... against Vice, and Comfort and Warning in View of the Coming of Christ: (1) Against
gross vice (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8). (2) Against idleness (1 Thessalonians 4:9 ...
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