'Hard' in the Bible

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.

Therefore, tell the Israelites, 'I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

And I will make Pharaoh’s heart hard, and multiply My signs and My wonders (miracles) in the land of Egypt.

Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

Then the LORD told Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hard. He has refused to let the people go.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron -- just as the Lord had predicted.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was [temporary] relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen or pay attention to them, just as the Lord had said.

The magicians said to Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God!" But Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.

and Pharaoh sendeth, and lo, not even one of the cattle of Israel hath died, and the heart of Pharaoh is hard, and he hath not sent the people away.

And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, both he and his servants.

So Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the Lord had predicted through Moses.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Go in unto Pharaoh, for I have declared hard his heart, and the heart of his servants, so that I set these My signs in their midst,

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go.

All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, as they were leaving confidently and defiantly.

And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.

And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House.

And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.

And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.

And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,

Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,

And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;

And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;

The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.

And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.

The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.

The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.