2 Chronicles 36:13
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 36:13
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
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קָשָׁה
qâshâh · kaw-shaw'
1 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)).
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And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
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stiffen
STIFFEN, verb transitive
1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the Lord God of Israel. 2 Chronicles 36:13.
STIFFEN the sinews; summon up the blood.
2. To make torpid; as stiffening grief.
3. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
STIFFEN, verb intransitive
1. To become stiff; to become more rigid or less flexible.
--Like bristles rose my stiffning hair.
2. To become more thick, or less soft; to be inspissated; to approach to hardness; as, melted substances stiffen as they cool.
The tender soil then stiffning by degrees--
3. To become less susceptible of impression; to become less susceptible of impression; to become less tender or yielding; to grow more obstinate.
Some souls, we see, grow hard and stiffen with adversity.
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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