Strong's #7186: qasheh (pronounced kaw-sheh')

from 7185; severe (in various applications):--churlish, cruel, grievous, hard((-hearted), thing), heavy, + impudent, obstinate, prevailed, rough(-ly), sore, sorrowful, stiff((necked)), stubborn, + in trouble.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qâsheh

1) hard, cruel, severe, obstinate

1a) hard, difficult

1b) severe

1c) fierce, intense, vehement

1d) stubborn, stiff of neck, stiff-necked

1e) rigorous (of battle)

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from H7185

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Genesis 42:7: "them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence"
Genesis 42:30: "who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of"
Exodus 1:14: "And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner"
Exodus 6:9: "Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage."
Exodus 18:26: "the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto"
Exodus 32:9: "people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:"
Exodus 33:3: "in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume"
Exodus 33:5: "the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst"
Exodus 34:9: "among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity"
Deuteronomy 9:6: "it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people."
Deuteronomy 9:13: "people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:"
Deuteronomy 26:6: "us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:"
Deuteronomy 31:27: "know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive"
Judges 2:19: "to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings,"
Judges 4:24: "of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king"
1 Samuel 1:15: "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither"
1 Samuel 20:10: "what if thy father answer thee roughly?"
1 Samuel 25:3: "and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb."
2 Samuel 2:17: "And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner"
2 Samuel 3:39: "men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer"
1 Kings 12:4: "grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy"
1 Kings 12:13: "answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel"
1 Kings 14:6: "feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy"
2 Chronicles 10:4: "grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy"
2 Chronicles 10:13: "And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel"
Job 30:25: "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?"
Psalms 60:3: "Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment."
Song of Solomon 8:6: "is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire,"
Isaiah 14:3: "from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein"
Isaiah 19:4: "the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule"
Isaiah 21:2: " A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up,"
Isaiah 27:1: "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish"
Isaiah 27:8: "when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind."
Isaiah 48:4: "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew,"
Ezekiel 2:4: " For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto"
Ezekiel 3:7: "the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted."