Definition

inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless

Etymology

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G2041 (ἔργον);

Word family

• Α A
• ἔργον érgon

How the KJV renders it

• barren
• idle
• slow

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.