STRONGS G1019:
βραδύνω; (
βραδύς);
to delay, be slow;
1. rarely transitive,
to render slow, retard:
τὴν σωτηρίαν,
Sept. Isaiah 46:13; passive
ὁδός, Sophocles El. 1501 [cf. O. C. 1628]. Mostly
2. intransitive,
to be long, to tarry, loiter (so from Aeschylus down):
1 Timothy 3:15; unusually, with the genitive of the thing which one delays to effect,
2 Peter 3:9 τῆς ἐπαγγελίας [A. V. is not slack concerning his promise]
i. e. to fulfil his promise; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6 b. (Sir. 32:22 (Sir. 35:22.))
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