BDB7635
I. [קָשָׁה] verb be hard, severe, fierce (Late Hebrew קָשָׁה be severe; Arabic [untranscribed source text 4890] ( [untranscribed source text 4891]) be hard, dry, III. endure, struggle against, severity ; Aramaic קְשָׁא, [untranscribed source text 4892] be hard, difficult; Jewish-Aramaic קְשִׁי, קַשְׁיָה adjective hard); —
Qal
Perfect 3 feminine singular קָֽשְׁתָה
1Sam 5:7,
קָשָׁ֑תָה
Gen 49:7
Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִקְשֶׁה
Deut 1:17; Deut 15:18,
וַיִּ֫קֶשׁ
2Sam 19:44 —
1.
be hard, difficult
Deut 1:17
(of a legal case; מִן comparative).
2.
be hard, severe, יָדוֺ
׳
ק
עָלֵינוּ
1Sam 5:7 (of
׳
י, in judgement); בְעֵינֶ֑ךָ
׳
יִק. Deut 15:18
it shall not be hard in thine eyes (seem a severe trial, an injustice); of wrath Gen 49:7
(poem in
J
; || עָ֑ז); of fierce words 2Sam 19:44.
Niph`al
Participle
נִקְשֶׁה
Isa 8:21
hardly bestead, hard pressed.
Pi`el
Imperfect 3 feminine singular וַתְּקַשׁ בְּלִדְתָּהּ
Gen 35:16
(
E
) she made hard in her bearing (had severe labour).
Hiph`il
Perfect 3 masculine singular הִקְשָׁה
Exod 13:15
+, etc.; Imperfect 3 masculine singular וַיֶּקֶשׁ
2Chr 36:13
3 masculine plural וַיַּקְשׁוּ
Jer 7:26
+, etc.; Infinitive construct suffix בְּהַקְשֹׁתָהּ
Gen 35:17
Participle
מַקְשֶׁה
Prov 28:14
; Prov
29:1 —
1.
make difficult, difficulty:
הִקְשָׁה לְשַׁלְּחֵנוּ
Exod
13:15 Pharaoh made difficulty about sending us away; of travail
Gen
35:17 (
E
; as
Pi`el); הִקְשִׁיתָ
לִשְׁאוֺל
2Kgs 2:10
thou hast made hard to ask, asked a hard thing.
2.
make severe, burdensome, yoke imposed by king 1Kgs 12:4 =
2Chr 10:4.
3.
a.
make hard, stiff, stubborn, figurative of obstinacy: וַיַּקְשׁוּ
אֶתעָֿרְפָּם
2Kgs 17:14
they stiffened their neck, so Jer 7:26; Jer 17:23;
Jer 19:15; Deut 10:16; 2Chr 30:8; 2Chr 36:13; Neh
9:16;
Neh 9:17; Neh 9:29; Prov 29:1
אַלתַּֿקְשׁוּ לְבַבְכֶם
Ps 95:8, compare Prov 28:14 subject ׳
י, ׳
אַקְשֶׁה אֶתלֵֿב פ
Exod
7:3 (
P
), accusative אֶתרֿוחוֺ
Deut 2:30,
b.
shew stubborness
Job 9:4 (with אֶל person [׳
י]).