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To harden

קָשַׁחStrong’s H7188

qashach (qa-shach)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qashach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it treats roughly” and “do you harden”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;”
Job 39:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. To make hard, treat hardly, treat severely(Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • it treats roughly 1
  • do you harden 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

קָשַׁח qashach · to harden

1) to make hard, treat hardly, treat severely 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to make hard, make stubborn 1a2) to treat hardly, treat roughly

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “harden” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

H'ARDEN, verb transitive

h'ardn. To make hard or more hard; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden iron or steel; to harden clay.

  1. To confirm in effrontery; to make impudent; as, to harden the face.
  2. To make obstinate, unyielding or refractory; as, to harden the neck. Jeremiah 19:15
  3. To confirm in wickedness, opposition or enmity; to make obdurate.“Why then do ye harden your hearts, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians hardened their hearts?” 1 Samuel 6:6
  4. To make insensible or unfeeling; as, to harden one against impressions of pity or tenderness.
All definitions and other forms of “harden”
  1. To make firm; to endure with constancy.“I would harden myself in sorrow” Job 6:10
  2. To inure; to render firm or less liable to injury, by exposure or use; as, to harden to a climate or to labor.

H'ARDEN, verb intransitive

h'ardn. To become hard or more hard; to acquire solidity or more compactness. Mortar hardens by drying.

  1. To become unfeeling.
  2. To become inured.
  3. To indurate, as flesh.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.