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רְמִיָּה

re.miy.yah

slackness

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Strong’s H7423bNoun, feminine5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

idleness3

laxness1

slackness1

In the text

Proverbs 10:4רְמִיָּה
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Jeremiah 48:10רְמִיָּה
Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

רְמִיָּה n.f. laxness, slackness

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.