UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Constructions: ἀτακτέω; ἀ-; τάσσω

Sense 1: to do nothing, to be idle, to be lazy

Semantic entry: 88.246

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Laziness, Idleness

Definition: to refuse to be engaged in the efforts of work

Notes: Traditional translations have often interpreted ἀτακτέω in an etymological sense of ‘not being ordered’ and hence with a meaning of ‘to behave in a disorderly manner,’ but this is quite contrary to the context.

TH2 3:7: RV TH2 3:7 · LV TH2 3:7 · Read together TH2 3:7

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OET-RV TH2 3:7

7 You yourselves know that it’s appropriate to be imitating us, because we didn’t loaf when we were among you all,

OET-LV TH2 3:7

7 For/Because yourselves you _all _have _known how it _is _fitting to _be _imitating us, because not we _loafed among you _all,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀτακτέω

Form 1

Sense 1: to do nothing, to be idle, to be lazy