Stubbornness
שְׁרִירוּתStrong’s H8307sherirut (she-ri-rut)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sherirut is the Hebrew word usually translated “stubbornness of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:”
Meaning
- Stubbornness, hardness, firmness
How it's translated
- in stubbornness of 6
- stubbornness of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Jeremiah 3:17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
- Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
- Jeremiah 9:14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
- Jeremiah 11:8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
- Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁרִירוּת sherirut · stubbornness
stubbornness, hardness, firmness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stubbornness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STUBBORNNESS, noun
- Perverse and unreasonable obstinacy; inflexibility; contumacy.
- Stiffness; want of pliancy.
- Refractoriness, as of ores.
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.