'Stern' in the Bible

it will be a nation whose language you don't understand, whose stern appearance neither shows regard nor extends grace to anyone whether old or young.

Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and began praying for daylight to come.

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck and couldn't be moved, while the stern was broken to pieces by the force of the waves.