Strong's #7185: qashah (pronounced kaw-shaw')

a primitive root; properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications):--be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qâshâh

1) to be hard, be severe, be fierce, be harsh

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be hard, be difficult

1a2) to be hard, be severe

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be ill-treated

1b2) to be hard pressed

1c) (Piel) to have severe labour (of women)

1d) (Hiphil)

1d1) to make difficult, make difficulty

1d2) to make severe, make burdensome

1d3) to make hard, make stiff, make stubborn

1d3a) of obstinacy (figuratively)

1d4) to show stubbornness

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Genesis 35:16: "a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor."
Genesis 35:17: "And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this"
Genesis 49:7: "it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel."
Exodus 7:3: "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs"
Exodus 13:15: "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all"
Deuteronomy 1:17: "the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto"
Deuteronomy 2:30: "by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate,"
Deuteronomy 10:16: "of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked."
Deuteronomy 15:18: "It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from"
1 Samuel 5:7: "with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god."
2 Samuel 19:43: "And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel."
1 Kings 12:4: "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service"
2 Kings 2:10: "And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from"
2 Kings 17:14: "Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that"
2 Chronicles 10:4: "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude"
2 Chronicles 30:8: "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 36:13: "who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened"
Nehemiah 9:16: "But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not"
Nehemiah 9:17: "that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed"
Nehemiah 9:29: "he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear."
Job 9:4: "and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?"
Psalms 95:8: " Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
Proverbs 28:14: "is the man that feareth always: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief."
Proverbs 29:1: "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Isaiah 8:21: "And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse"
Jeremiah 7:26: "inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers."
Jeremiah 17:23: "their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive"
Jeremiah 19:15: "I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear"