Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Hard
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Read in context →Deuteronomy
4 occurrences in 4 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where hard appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Genesis
33 verses
Exodus
22 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
44 verses
Judges
22 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
2 Samuel
33 verses
1 Kings
22 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
22 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Jonah
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
11 verses
John
11 verses
Acts
33 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
2 Peter
11 verses
Jude
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
σκληρός
sklērós · sklay-ros'
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
dry, i.e. hard or tough (figuratively, harsh, severe)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fierce, hard.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 25:24Strong's last: Jude 1:15
Open full G4642 profile →דָּבַק
dâbaq · daw-bak'
5 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
Strong's KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 14:22Strong's last: Psalms 63:8
Open full H1692 profile →פָּלָא
pâlâʼ · paw-law'
5 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, (arise...too, be too) hard, hidden, things too high, (be, do, do a, shew) marvelous(-ly, -els, things, work), miracles, perform, separate, make singular, (be, great, make) wonderful(-ers, -ly, things, works), wondrous (things, works, -ly).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 18:14Strong's last: Jeremiah 32:27
Open full H6381 profile →קָשֶׁה
qâsheh · kaw-sheh'
5 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
severe (in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: churlish, cruel, grievous, hard((-hearted), thing), heavy, impudent, obstinate, prevailed, rough(-ly), sore, sorrowful, stiff(necked), stubborn, in trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 1:14Strong's last: Isaiah 14:3
Open full H7186 profile →קָשָׁה
qâshâh · kaw-shaw'
4 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 35:16Strong's last: Deuteronomy 15:18
Open full H7185 profile →כָּבֵד
kâbêd · kaw-bade'
2 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
Strong's KJV usage: (so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 3:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 3:6
Open full H3515 profile →δύσκολος
dýskolos · doo'-kol-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, fastidious about eating (peevish), i.e. (genitive case) impracticable
Strong's KJV usage: :--hard.
Strong's first: Mark 10:24Strong's last: Mark 10:24
Open full G1422 profile →אֵיתָן
ʼêythân · ay-thawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
permanence; hence (concrete) permanent; specifically a chieftain
Strong's KJV usage: hard, mighty, rough, strength, strong.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 13:15Strong's last: Proverbs 13:15
Open full H386 profile →חָתַר
châthar · khaw-thar'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars
Strong's KJV usage: dig (through), row.
Strong's first: Jonah 1:13Strong's last: Jonah 1:13
Open full H2864 profile →יָצַק
yâtsaq · yaw-tsak'
1 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
Strong's KJV usage: cast, cleave fast, be (as) firm, grow, be hard, lay out, molten, overflow, pour (out), run out, set down, stedfast.
Strong's first: Job 41:24Strong's last: Job 41:24
Open full H3332 profile →נָגַשׁ
nâgash · naw-gash'
1 times translated as this KJV form127 total Strong's occurrences
to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; religious to worship; causatively, to present; figuratively, to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand back
Strong's KJV usage: (make to) approach (nigh), bring (forth, hither, near), (cause to) come (hither, near, nigh), give place, go hard (up), (be, draw, go) near (nigh), offer, overtake, present, put, stand.
Strong's first: Judges 9:52Strong's last: Judges 9:52
Open full H5066 profile →סָמַךְ
çâmak · saw-mak'
1 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences
to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
Strong's KJV usage: bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 88:7Strong's last: Psalms 88:7
Open full H5564 profile →עֻמָּה
ʻummâh · oom-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
conjunction, i.e. society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with
Strong's KJV usage: (over) against, at, beside, hard by, in points.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 3:9Strong's last: Leviticus 3:9
Open full H5980 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
45 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H6381
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
H7185
And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
H7185
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
H7186
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
H7186
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
H5980
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
H7185
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
H7185
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
H6381
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
H7186
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
H5066
And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
no direct Strong's tag
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
H1692
Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
H1692
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
H1692
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
H7186
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
H6381
And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.
no direct Strong's tag
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
no direct Strong's tag
And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
no direct Strong's tag
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
H1692
And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
no direct Strong's tag
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
no direct Strong's tag
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
H3332
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
no direct Strong's tag
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
hard
H'ARD, adjective
1. Firm; solid; compact; not easily penetrated, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
2. Difficult; not easy to the intellect.
In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter 3:16.
The hard causes they brought to Moses. Exodus 18:26.
3. Difficult of accomplishment; not easy to be done or executed. A hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Is any thing too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14.
4. Full of difficulties or obstacles; not easy to be traveled; as a hard way.
5. Painful; difficult; distressing.
Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. Genesis 35:16.
6. Laborious; fatiguing; attended with difficulty or pain, or both; as hard work or labor; hard duty; hard service.
7. Oppressive; rigorous; severe; cruel; as hard bondage; a hard master. Exodus 1:14. Isaiah 14:3.
8. Unfeeling; insensible; not easily moved by pity; not susceptible of kindness, mercy or other tender affections; as a hard heart.
9. Severe; harsh; rough; abusive.
Have you given him any hard words of late?
10. Unfavorable; unkind; implying blame of another; as hard thoughts.
11. Severe; rigorous; oppressive. The enemy was compelled to submit to hard terms. So we say, a hard bargain; hard conditions.
12. Unreasonable; unjust. It is hard to punish a man for speculative opinions. It is a hard case.
13. Severe; pinching with cold; rigorous; tempestuous; as a hard winter; hard weather.
14. Powerful; forcible; urging; pressing close on.
The stag was too hard for the horse.
The disputant was too hard for his antagonist.
15. Austere; rough; acid; sour; as liquors.
The cider is hard
16. Harsh; stiff; forced; constrained; unnatural.
Others--make the figures harder than the marble itself.
His diction is hard his figures too bold.
17. Not plentiful; not prosperous; pressing; distressing; as hard times, when markets are bad, and money of course scarce.
18. Avaricious; difficult in making bargains; close. Matthew 25:24.
19. Rough; of coarse features; as a hard face or countenance.
20. Austere; severe; rigorous.
21. Rude; unpolished or unintelligible.
A people of hard language. Ezekiel 3:5.
22. Coarse; unpalatable or scanty; as hard fare.
H'ARD, adverb Close; near; as in the phrase, hard by. In this phrase, the word retains its original sense of pressed, or pressing.
[Latin pressus.]
1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; laboriously; earnestly; vehemently; importunately; as, to work hard for a living.
And pray'd so hard for mercy from the prince.
2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard
3. Uneasily; vexatiously.
4. Closely; so as to raise difficulties.
The question is hard set.
5. Fast; nimbly; rapidly; vehemently; as, to run hard that is, with pressure or urgency.
6. Violently; with great force; tempestuously; as, the wind blows hard or it blows hard
7. With violence; with a copious descent of water; as, it rains hard
8. With force; as, to press hard
Hard-a-lee, in seamen's language, an order to put the helm close to the lee side of the ship, to tack or keep her head to the wind; also, that situation of the helm.
Hard-a-weather, an order to put the helm close to the weather or windward side of the ship; also, that position of the helm.
Hard-a-port, an order to put the helm close to the larboard side of a ship.
Hard-a-starboard, an order to put the helm close to the starboard side of a ship.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.