378 occurrences in 13 translations

'Hard' in the Bible

because I was afraid of you. You are a hard man. You withdraw what you didn't deposit and harvest what you didn't plant.'

The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?

For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord [and relentless in his search for believers], went to the high priest,

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:

For the hearts of these peoplehave grown callous,their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heart,and be converted,and I would heal them.

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who have worked hard in the Lord.Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.

Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

to submit yourselves to people like these and to anyone else who shares their labor and hard work.

But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ.

hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

Yes, I also ask you, my true partner, to help these women. They have worked hard with me to advance the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

For I testify about him that he works hard for you, for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

"If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?"

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחידה 
'achiydah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

איתן 
'eythan 
Usage: 13

דּבק 
Dabaq 
Usage: 54

חזק 
Chazaq 
Usage: 290

חזק 
Chazaq 
Usage: 57

חידה 
Chiydah 
Usage: 17

יצק 
Yatsaq 
Usage: 53

כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

כּבד 
Kabed 
Usage: 40

מוּצק 
Muwtsaq 
Usage: 2

סלד 
Calad 
Usage: 1

סמך 
Camak 
Usage: 48

עזז 
`azaz 
Usage: 12

עמּה 
`ummah 
Usage: 32

עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 4

פּלא 
Pala' 
Usage: 71

קשׁה 
Qashah 
Usage: 28

קשׁה 
Qasheh 
Usage: 36

קשׁח 
Qashach 
Usage: 2

תּקף 
T@qeph (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

δυσερμήνευτος 
Dusermeneutos 
hard to be uttered
Usage: 1

δύσκολος 
Duskolos 
Usage: 0

δυσκόλως 
Duskolos 
Usage: 0

δυσνόητος 
Dusnoetos 
Usage: 1

κακοπαθέω 
Kakopatheo 
Usage: 4

μόγις 
Mogis 
Usage: 1

μόλις 
Molis 
Usage: 6

πωρόω 
Poroo 
Usage: 4

πώρωσις 
Porosis 
Usage: 3

σκληροκαρδία 
Sklerokardia 
Usage: 1

σκληρός 
Skleros 
hard , fierce -
Usage: 3

σκληρότης 
Sklerotes 
Usage: 1

σκληρύνω 
Skleruno 
Usage: 6

συνομορέω 
sunomoreo 
Usage: 1

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