קָשָׁה (qāšâ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning be hard. It appears
28 times
in 14 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7185).
Also rendered
to harden
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2085)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2085)be hard, severe, fierce; difficult; hardly bestead, hard pressed; make difficult, difficulty, make severe, burdensome, make hard, stiff, stubborn, shew stubbornness; be dense; be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be sore
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
קָשָׁהverb: be hard, severe, fierce
Qal
1.be hard, difficult
2.be hard, severe
Niphalhardly bestead, hard pressed
Hiphil
1.make difficult, difficulty
2.make severe, burdensome, yoke imposed by king
3.
a.make hard, stiff, stubborn, figuratively of obstinacy
b.shew stubbornness
Strong's H7185קָשָׁה: properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications) KJV:be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.