Reference: Hard
Hastings
Besides other meanings which are still in use, 'hard' sometimes means close: Jg 9:52 'And Abimelech
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And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, that Jehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of men and the firstborn of cattle: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that breaketh open the womb being males; and every firstborn of my children I ransom.
And Abim'elech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
And Jesus said to his disciples, Verily I say unto you, A rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of the heavens;
and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it tears him with foaming, and with difficulty departs from him after crushing him.
And departing thence he came to the house of a certain man, by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.
and coasting it with difficulty we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city of Lasaea.
Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.