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slug´ard: Found only in the Old Testament, and there only in Proverbs. It is the rendering given the word ‛aÌ„ceÌ„l everywhere in the Revised Version (British and American), but in the King James Version only in , ; ; ; ; (elsewhere the King James Version translates by “slothfulâ€). The root meaning of ‛aÌ„ceÌ„l is “to be sluggish,†“stupid.†The English word “slug†is said to be “allied to slack†(Webster).