sherirut · stubbornness

What it means

sherirut (שְׁרִירוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stubbornness”.

The hardness of one who follows only his own opinion.

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. A hard heart that follows only its own way.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×8

• Deuteronomy 29:19

  And it happen, when he hears the words of this oath of imprecation, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” so as to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.

• Psalms 81:12

  So I let him go in the stubbornness of their heart; they will walk in their own plans.

• Jeremiah 3:17

  At that time they will call Jerusalem the Throne of YHWH, and all the nations will gather to it, to the name of YHWH at Jerusalem, and they will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

• Jeremiah 7:24

  But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they went backward and not forward.

• Jeremiah 9:14

  but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,

• Jeremiah 11:8

  But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked, each one in the stubbornness of his evil heart; and I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not do them.”

• Jeremiah 13:10

  This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, will be like this belt, which is not good for anything.

• Jeremiah 16:12

  and you have done worse than your fathers; and look, you are walking, each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so as not to listen to me.

• Jeremiah 18:12

  But they will say: ‘It is hopeless! For after our own plans we will walk, and each one the stubbornness of his evil heart we will do.’

• Jeremiah 23:17

  They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘YHWH has spoken: You will have peace’; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they have said, ‘No evil will come upon you.’