'Stern' in the Bible

a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear.

But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.