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 upon you. I have given my slave woman into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and you.
And it happened when Pharaoh hardened himself against sending us, Jehovah killed all the first-born of the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that opens the womb, that are males. But all the first-born of my sons I redeem.
And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and went hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the graves are ready for me.
My soul follows hard after You; Your right hand upholds me.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
And lo, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out. And it throws him into convulsions, with foaming, and with pain departs from him, bruising him.
And he departed from there and entered into the house of one named Justus, one worshiping God, whose house was next to the synagogue.
And coasting along with difficulty, we came to a place named Fair Havens, near which was a city, Lasea.
Therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.