kasha · be hard

What it means

kasha (קָשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be hard”.

Be difficult; in the causative form, make hard, harden.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be heavy to bear, or severe.
2. To make the heart unyielding.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hardened ×9
• hard ×7
• stiffened ×4
• harden ×2
• be stubborn ×1
• it is cruel ×1
• stiffen ×1
• was harsher ×1
• who hardens ×1
• whoever hardens ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3

• Genesis 35:16

  They set out from Bethel, and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and her labor was hard.

• Genesis 35:17

  When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for this too is a son for you.”

• Genesis 49:7

  Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

• Exodus 7:3

  But I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 13:15

  When Pharaoh hardened himself against letting us go, YHWH killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of people and the firstborn of animals. That is why I sacrifice to YHWH every first offspring of the womb that is male, but every firstborn of my sons I ransom.’

• Deuteronomy 1:17

  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is Elohim’s. And the case that is too hard for you you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

• Deuteronomy 2:30

  But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass by him, for YHWH your Elohim had hardened his spirit and made firm his heart, in order to give him into your hand, as it is this day.

• Deuteronomy 10:16

  So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

• Deuteronomy 15:18

  It shall not seem hard in your eyes when you let him go free from you, for twice the wages of a hired worker he has served you six years; and YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all that you do.

• 1 Samuel 5:7

  And the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, and they said, “The ark of the Elohim of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.”

• 2 Samuel 19:43

  The men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, “I have ten shares in the king, and in David too I have more than you. Why then have you despised me? Was not my word the first for me to bring back my king?” But the word of the men of Judah was harsher than the word of the men of Israel.

• 1 Kings 12:4

  “Your father hardened our yoke; now you, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Kings 2:10

  He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be.”

• 2 Kings 17:14

  But they did not listen, and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in YHWH their Elohim.

• 2 Chronicles 10:4

  “Your father hardened our yoke; so now lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers; give your hand to YHWH, and come to his sanctuary which he has sanctified forever, and serve YHWH your Elohim, and his burning anger will turn away from you.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by Elohim; and he stiffened his neck and made firm his heart against returning to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• Nehemiah 9:16

  But they and our fathers acted with arrogance and hardened their neck, and did not listen to your commandments.

• Nehemiah 9:17

  They refused to listen, and did not remember your wonders that you had done with them; and they hardened their neck and appointed a head to return to their servitude in their rebellion. But you are an Eloah of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and you did not abandon them.

• Nehemiah 9:29

  And you testified against them to turn them back to your law; yet they acted with arrogance and did not listen to your commandments, and against your rules they sinned, which, if a person does them, he will live by them; and they gave a rebellious shoulder, and their neck they hardened, and did not listen.

• Job 9:4

  Wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has hardened himself against him and remained at peace?

• Psalms 95:8

  do not harden your heart as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,

• Proverbs 28:14

  Happy is the man who fears always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.

• Proverbs 29:1

  A man of reproofs who hardens his neck will suddenly be broken, and there will be no healing.

• Isaiah 8:21

  And he will pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and it will happen when he is hungry that he will be enraged and curse his king and his Elohim, and turn his face upward.

• Jeremiah 7:26

  Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did worse than their fathers.

• Jeremiah 17:23

  But they did not listen or incline their ear, but they hardened their neck so as not to listen and not to receive correction.

• Jeremiah 19:15

  “Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am bringing on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have stiffened their neck so as not to hear my words.”