H7185 קָשָׁה

קָשָׁה (qâshâh), Strong’s H7185: 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……

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qâshâh — 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…

Occurs 28 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

Where it occurs
- Genesis 35:16 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=16) — They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
- Genesis 35:17 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=17) — When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
- Genesis 49:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=7) — Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter…
- Exodus 7:3 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=3) — I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:15 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=15) — When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the…
- Deuteronomy 1:17 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=17) — You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the…
- Deuteronomy 2:30 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=30) — But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart…
- Deuteronomy 10:16 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/10?v=16) — Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
- Deuteronomy 15:18 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=18) — 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…
- 1 Samuel 5:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/5?v=7) — 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…