Quick Definition
to harden
Strong's Definition
to be (causatively, make) unfeeling
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: harden.
TWOT Reference: 2087
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָשַׁח (qa.shach) — to harden. 1) to make hard, treat hardly, treat severely 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to make hard, make stubborn 1a2) to treat hardly, treat roughly
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Unwilling | verb hif | ≈ תעה מִדֶּרֶךְ | ≠ יִרְאָה
Collocation: קשׁח לֵב
to cause to be stubborn, to cause to be stiff-necked literally: to harden someone else's heart; = causative action by which deities cause humans to be stubborn and unwilling to yield
Cruel | verb hif
to treat harshly, to treat cruelly = action by which animal treat each other with cruelty and without compassion
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[קָשַׁח] vb. Hiph. 1. make hard. 2. treat hardly base