{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7185",
  "lemma": "קָשָׁה",
  "transliteration": "qâshâh",
  "definition": "properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)",
  "kjv": "be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en…",
  "occurrences": 28,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[קָשָׁה] vb. be hard, severe, fierce",
    "Qal",
    "1. be hard, difficult",
    "2. be hard, severe",
    "Niph. hardly bestead, hard pressed",
    "Pi. she made hard in her bearing (had severe labour)",
    "Hiph.",
    "1. make difficult, difficulty",
    "2. make severe, burdensome, yoke imposed by king",
    "a. make hard, stiff, stubborn, fig. of obstinacy",
    "b. shew stubbornness"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:16",
      "text": "They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:17",
      "text": "When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 49:7",
      "text": "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 7:3",
      "text": "I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 13:15",
      "text": "When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 1:17",
      "text": "You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 2:30",
      "text": "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 10:16",
      "text": "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/10?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 15:18",
      "text": "It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 5:7",
      "text": "When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/5?v=7"
    }
  ],
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