kashe · hard, harsh

What it means

kashe (קָשֶׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hard, harsh”.

Severe; stubborn, difficult.

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. Which is very costly to bear, do or solve.
2. Unyielding: "stiff-necked people".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hard ×17
• stubborn ×7
• harshly ×5
• harder ×2
• harsh ×2
• difficult ×1
• stubbornness ×1
• troubled ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×7
• Deuteronomy×4
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×6
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 42:7

  Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he made himself a stranger to them and spoke with them harshly. He said to them, “Where have you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

• Genesis 42:30

  “The man, the lord of the land, spoke with us harshly and took us for men spying out the land.

• Exodus 1:14

  and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, with mortar and with bricks and with every kind of work in the field; all their work in which they made them work was ruthless.

• Exodus 6:9

  Moses spoke this way to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses because of their discouragement and because of hard bondage.

• Exodus 18:26

  They judged the people at all times; the difficult matter they would bring to Moses, but every small matter they would judge themselves.

• Exodus 32:9

  And YHWH said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and look, it is a stubborn people.

• Exodus 33:3

  Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stubborn people, lest I consume you on the way.”

• Exodus 33:5

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stubborn people. If for one moment I went up in your midst, I would consume you. So now, take off your ornaments from you, and I will know what I will do with you.’”

• Exodus 34:9

  And he said, “If, please, I have found favor in your eyes, Adonai, let Adonai go, please, in our midst; although it is a stubborn people, forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

• Deuteronomy 9:6

  Know that it is not because of your righteousness that YHWH your Elohim is giving you this good land to take possession of it, for you are a stubborn people.

• Deuteronomy 9:13

  YHWH said to me, “I have seen this people, and look, it is a stubborn people.

• Deuteronomy 26:6

  And the Egyptians treated us badly and afflicted us and laid on us hard bondage.

• Deuteronomy 31:27

  For I know your rebelliousness and your stubbornness. Look, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against YHWH; how much more after my death!

• Judges 2:19

  But when the judge died, they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them; they did not let go of any of their deeds or of their stubborn way.

• Judges 4:24

  And the hand of the sons of Israel bore down harder and harder on Jabin king of Canaan, until they had cut off Jabin king of Canaan.

• 1 Samuel 1:15

  And Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord; I am a woman troubled in spirit. Wine and intoxicating drink I have not drunk, but I have poured out my soul before YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 20:10

  David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me whether your father answers you harshly?”

• 1 Samuel 25:3

  The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful in form, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was a Calebite.

• 2 Samuel 2:17

  The battle was extremely hard on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were struck down before the servants of David.

• 2 Samuel 3:39

  And I am soft today, though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are harder than I. May YHWH repay the one who does evil according to his evil!”

• 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.”

• 1 Kings 12:13

  The king answered the people harshly, and abandoned the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him;

• 1 Kings 14:6

  And it happened, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the doorway, that he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you pretending to be another woman? And I am sent to you with a hard word.

• 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 10:13

  The king answered them harshly; King Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the elders,

• Job 30:25

  Did not I weep for the one whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

• Psalms 60:3

  You have made your people see hard things; you have given us to drink wine of staggering.

• Song of Songs 8:6

  Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for strong as death is love, hard as Sheol is jealousy; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah.

• Isaiah 14:3

  And it will happen, on the day when YHWH gives you rest from your pain and from your turmoil and from the hard service with which you were made to serve,

• Isaiah 19:4

  And I will hand over Egypt into the hand of a hard master, and a strong king will rule over them, declares the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 21:2

  A harsh vision has been told to me: the traitor betrays, and the devastator devastates. Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media! All its sighing I have brought to an end.

• Isaiah 27:1

  On that day YHWH will punish, with his sword —the hard, the great, and the strong— Leviathan the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.

• Isaiah 27:8

  With measure, by sending her away you contended with her; he removed her with his hard wind in the day of the east wind.

• Isaiah 48:4

  Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your forehead bronze,

• Ezekiel 2:4

  And the sons are hard of face and obstinate of heart: to them I am sending you, and you will say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH.’

• Ezekiel 3:7

  But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me; for all the house of Israel, they are hard of forehead and hard of heart.