SLOW, used in the KJV to indicate a number of words which denote gradual or decelerating action. 1. Heb. אָרֵכְ, H800, “slow to anger,” used in the sense of longsuffering (Neh 9:17, et al.).

2. Heb. כָּבֵד֮, H3878, “heavy.” It is tr. by KJV as “slow” only once (Exod 4:10), but should be read as “slow of speech.”

3. Gr. ἀργός, G734, “lazy,” occurs in Titus 1:12 in what may be a quotation from the fragments of a poem by the Cretan pre-Socratic sage, Epimenides (6th cent. b.c.); elsewhere in the NT, tr. “idle” (Matt 20:3, 6, et al.).

4. Gr. βραδύς, G1096, “slow,” particularly in the idiom, “slow of heart” (Luke 24:25, et al.).