- ὀκνηρός
- ὀκνηρός, ά, όν (ὀκνέω; Pind., Hippocr. et al.; LXX; Philo; Jos., Ant. 2, 236).① possessing ὄκνος (a state involving shrinking from someth., ‘holding back, hesitation. reluctance’), idle, lazy, indolent (Hierocles Scriptor Facetiarum, ed. AEberhard 1869, Facetiae 211) of a slave (w. πονηρός) Mt 25:26 (voc. as Pr 6:6, 9). W. dat. τῇ σπουδῇ μὴ ὀκ. never let your zeal flag (Moffatt) Ro 12:11.② pert. to involvement in ὄκνος, causing hesitation, reluctance, (such as) to shrink from ἐμοὶ οὐκ ὀκνηρόν it is not troublesome to me w. inf. Phil 3:1 (the verb with γράφειν PLeid XVII, 14, 20f; Sb 7353, 14 [c. 200 A.D.]; PSI 621, 5).—AFridrichsen, StKr 102, 1930, 300f.—B. 315. DELG s.v. 1 ὄκνο. M-M. TW. Spicq.
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