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Gen. xlv. 5.HARD, is taken for difficult, sad, unfortunate, cruel, austere, &c. Non vobis durum esse videatur, quòd me vendidistis. The Hebrew, Now therefore be not sad that ye sold me Gen. xlix. 7.hither. Cursed be their wrath, for it was hard; in the Hebrew, for it was obstinate. Exod. i. 14.Pharaoh overwhelmed the Israelites with hard labour, with tasks that were difficult and insupportable. Ye are a people of a hard Exod. xxxii. 9. 2 Sam. iii. 39. 1 Sam. xxv. 3.head, untractable, inflexible. These sons of Zerviah are too hard for me; treat me with insolence, with unseasonable cruelty. Nabal was a hard and evil-conditioned man; a man without humanity, without gentleness, without Psal. xvii. 4.consideration. I followed hard ways, I led an austere life; my behaviour was morose. A hard heart, hardened, insensible. A hard forehead, insolent. I have made thy Ezek. iii. 8.forehead hard against their foreheads. The Israelites are hardened to the degree of insensibility: they have lost all shame. I will make you still harder and bolder in reproving evil, than they are in committing it. And in Isai. l. 7.Isaiah, I have made thy face like a rock, very hard. Thy sins are become hard and incorrigible. Propter multitudinem iniquitatis tuæ Jerem. xxx. 14.dura facta sunt peccata tua. Envy is hard as Cant. viii. 6.hell: it is Ecclus.cruel, severe, implacable as death and the grave. An untamed horse is hard; stubborn, unless it is managed betimes.

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