Genesis 42:7
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
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Roughly
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Proverbs 18:23
The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
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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.
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Strong's first: Genesis 42:7Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 10:13
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ʻaz · az
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
strong, vehement, harsh
Strong's KJV usage: fierce, greedy, mighty, power, roughly, strong.
Strong's first: Proverbs 18:23Strong's last: Proverbs 18:23
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H7186
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
H7186
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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roughly
ROUGHLY, adverb ruf'ly.
1. With uneven surface; with asperities on the surface.
2. Harshly; uncivilly; rudely; as, to be treated roughly
3. Severely; without tenderness; as, to blame too roughly
4. Austerely to the taste.
5. Boisterously; tempestuously.
6. Harshly to the ear.
7. Violently; not gently.
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.
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