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Hard [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Firm; solid; compact; not easily penetrated, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

2. Difficult; not easy to the intellect.

3. In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter 3:16 .

4. The hard causes they brought to Moses. Exodus 18:26 .

5. Difficult of accomplishment; not easy to be done or executed. A hard task; a disease hard to cure.

6. Is any thing too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14 .

7. Full of difficulties or obstacles; not easy to be traveled; as a hard way.

8. Painful; difficult; distressing.

9. Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. Genesis 35:16 .

10. Laborious; fatiguing; attended with difficulty or pain, or both; as hard work or labor; hard duty; hard service.

11. Oppressive; rigorous; severe; cruel; as hard bondage; a hard master. Exodus 1:14 . Isaiah 14:3 .

12. Unfeeling; insensible; not easily moved by pity; not susceptible of kindness, mercy or other tender affections; as a hard heart.

13. Severe; harsh; rough; abusive.

14. Have you given him any hard words of late?

15. Unfavorable; unkind; implying blame of another; as hard thoughts.

16. Severe; rigorous; oppressive. The enemy was compelled to submit to hard terms. So we say, a hard bargain; hard conditions.

17. Unreasonable; unjust. It is hard to punish a man for speculative opinions. It is a hard case.

18. Severe; pinching with cold; rigorous; tempestuous; as a hard winter; hard weather.

19. Powerful; forcible; urging; pressing close on.

20. The stag was too hard for the horse.

21. The disputant was too hard for his antagonist.

22. Austere; rough; acid; sour; as liquors.

23. The cider is hard

24. Harsh; stiff; forced; constrained; unnatural.

25. Others--make the figures harder than the marble itself.

26. His diction is hard his figures too bold.

27. Not plentiful; not prosperous; pressing; distressing; as hard times, when markets are bad, and money of course scarce.

28. Avaricious; difficult in making bargains; close. Matthew 25:24 .

29. Rough; of coarse features; as a hard face or countenance.

30. Austere; severe; rigorous.

31. Rude; unpolished or unintelligible.

32. A people of hard language. Ezekiel 3:5 .

33. Coarse; unpalatable or scanty; as hard fare.

Hard [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Close; near; as in the phrase, hard by. In this phrase, the word retains its original sense of pressed, or pressing.

2. [Latin pressus.]

3. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; laboriously; earnestly; vehemently; importunately; as, to work hard for a living.

4. And pray'd so hard for mercy from the prince.

5. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard

6. Uneasily; vexatiously.

7. Closely; so as to raise difficulties.

8. The question is hard set.

9. Fast; nimbly; rapidly; vehemently; as, to run hard that is, with pressure or urgency.

10. Violently; with great force; tempestuously; as, the wind blows hard or it blows hard

11. With violence; with a copious descent of water; as, it rains hard

12. With force; as, to press hard

13. Hard-a-lee, in seamen's language, an order to put the helm close to the lee side of the ship, to tack or keep her head to the wind; also, that situation of the helm.

14. Hard-a-weather, an order to put the helm close to the weather or windward side of the ship; also, that position of the helm.

15. Hard-a-port, an order to put the helm close to the larboard side of a ship.

16. Hard-a-starboard, an order to put the helm close to the starboard side of a ship.

Hard [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

3. Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

4. So as to raise difficulties.

5. With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

6. Close or near.

Hard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Hard [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

2. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

3. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

4. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

5. Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

6. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

8. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

9. Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

10. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

11. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

12. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

Hard [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To harden; to make hard.

Hard grass Webster's Dictionary 1913

A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

Hard-besetting [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Closely besetting or besieging.

Hard-favored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.

Hard-featured [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.

Hard-fisted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.

2. Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.

Hard-fought [A. Vigorously] Webster's Dictionary 1913

contested; as, a hard-fought battle.

Hard-handed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.

Hard-headed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.

Hard-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.

Hard-labored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studies; as a hard-labored poem.

Hard-labored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.

Hard-mouthed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as a hard-mouthed horse.

Hard-mouthed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.

Hard-shell [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.

Hard-tack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

Hard-visaged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.

Hardbake [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.

Hardbeam [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

Hardbound [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Costive; fast or tight; as hardbound brains.

Harddihead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hardihood.

Harddihood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

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Genesis 16:6

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

Genesis 18:14

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

Genesis 33:13

And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 35:16

And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Genesis 35:17

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

Genesis 41:51

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Genesis 48:10

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

Exodus 1:14

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Exodus 2:11

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Exodus 4:21

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 5:9

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

Exodus 7:3

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 7:13

And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

Exodus 7:14

And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.

Exodus 7:22

And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

Exodus 8:19

Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

Exodus 8:32

And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.