Reference: Hard
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Besides other meanings which are still in use, 'hard' sometimes means close: Jg 9:52 'And Abimelech
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has looked down on me. May the Lord judge between me and you."
When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn [male] in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the Lord all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.'
When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.
My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!
Often a spirit seizes him; suddenly he shrieks, and it throws him into convulsions until he foams at the mouth; wounding him, it hardly ever leaves him.
So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
With yet more difficulty we sailed along the coast, and came to a place called Fair Havens near the city of Lasea.
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.