קָשַׁח
kashach · treat harshly, harden
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7188 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kashach (קָשַׁח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “treat harshly, harden”.
To treat harshly, to make unfeeling.
How to say it
ka·shach
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
- To make the heart unfeeling, unresponsive.
- To act cruelly, without tenderness.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- She treats harshly ×1
- harden ×1
Where it appears
- Job 39:16
She treats harshly her young as if they were not hers; in vain is her labor, without dread,
- Isaiah 63:17
Why, YHWH, do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from fearing you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.