שְׁרִירוּת
shᵉrîyrûwth · H8307 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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Literally: stubbornness of heart; hence: state in which humans are unwilling to accept someone else's authority and insist on following their own thinking (stubbornness of (one's) heart)
ExamplesDeuteronomy 29:19 “And it shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will consider himself fortunate in his heart, saying, ‘I will do well though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land along with the dry.’
Psalm 81:12 “So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk by their own plans.
Jeremiah 3:17 “At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the LORD,’ and all the nations will assemble at it, at Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD; and they will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil heart.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
10 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 10
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 11
- אַחַרafter, behind 5
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- קְשִׁי qᵉshîy · H7190 · stubbornness
- Both lexemes denote internal dispositions of resistance/refusal in the Unwilling domain. The senses overlap in the semantic space of obstinate refusal to comply with divine will, stubbornness and willful imagination/lust are near-synonymous in this context. This is a same-language near-synonym pair.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unwilling002001002031
- This noun denotes a stubborn refusal to obey, as in Jeremiah 7:24's condemnation of a people who walked by their own advice in the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8307. sheriruth שְׁרִירוּת, usually שְׁרִרות noun feminine firmness, always =…
שְׁרִירוּת, usually שְׁרִרות noun feminine firmness, always = stubbornness; only construct ׳שׁ, followed by ׃לֵב : Jer 9:13; Jer 13:10; Jer 23:17; Deu 29:18; Psa 81:13 (שְׁרִירוּת); ׳שׁ הָרָע ם לִָ Jer 3:17; Jer 7:24; Jer 11:8 (׳שְׁרִי), so (לִבּוֺ) Jer 16:12; Jer 18:12.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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