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1.
(
$
, 4456), “to make hard, callous, to petrify” (akin to B, No. 2), is used
metaphorically, of the heart, Mark 6:52; 8:17; John 12:40; of the mind (or thoughts), 2
Cor. 3:14, of those in Israel who refused the revealed will and ways of God in the gospel,
as also in Rom. 11:7,
RV
, “hardened” (
KJV
, “blinded”), in both places. See
BLINDNESS
.¶
2.
$
(
$"
, 4645), “to make dry or hard” (akin to A, No. 1 and B, No. 1),
is used in Acts 19:9; in Rom. 9:18, illustrated by the case of Pharaoh, who first
persistently “hardened” his heart (see the
RV
marg. of Ex. 7:13, 22; 8:19; text of v. 32 and
9:7), all producing the retributive “hardening” by God, after His much long-suffering,
9:12, etc.; in Heb. 3:8, 13, 15; 4:7, warnings against the “hardening” of the heart.¶
HARDLY
1.
$
(
, 1423), the adverbial form of
HARD
, A, No. 2, is used in Matt.
19:23; Mark 10:23; Luke 18:24 of the danger of riches.¶
2.
(
, 3425), “with labor, pain, trouble” (akin to
, “toil”), is found in
some mss. in Luke 9:39, instead of No. 3.¶
3.
(
, 3433), “with difficulty, scarcely, hardly” (akin to
, “toil”), is
used as an alternative for No. 2, and occurs in the most authentic mss. in Luke 9:39; it is
rendered “hardly” in Acts 27:8,
KJV
. See
DIFFICULTY
.
HARDSHIP (to suffer)
1.
(
!
, 2553), “to suffer evil,” is translated “suffer hardship” in
three places in the
RV
, 2 Tim. 2:3 (in some mss.; see No. 2),
KJV
, “endure hardness”; 2:9,
KJV
, “suffer trouble”; 4:5,
KJV
, “endure affliction”; in Jas. 5:13,
RV
, “suffering” (
KJV
,
“afflicted”). See
AFFLICT
,
ENDURE
,
SUFFER
.¶ In the Sept., Jonah 4:10.¶
2.
$
(
!
, 4777), “to suffer hardship with,” is so rendered in
2 Tim. 1:8,
RV
,
KJV
, “be thou partaker of the afflictions” (of the gospel), and, in the best
mss., in 2:3, “suffer hardship with me.” See
AFFLICTION
, No. 3,
: !
¶
HARLOT
(
$
, 4204), “a prostitute, harlot” (from
, “to sell”), is used (a)
literally, in Matt. 21:31, 32, of those who were the objects of the mercy shown by Christ;
in Luke 15:30, of the life of the Prodigal; in 1 Cor. 6:15, 16, in a warning to the
Corinthian church against the prevailing licentiousness which had made Corinth a
byword; in Heb. 11:31 and Jas. 2:25, of Rahab; (b) metaphorically, of mystic Babylon,
Rev. 17:1, 5 (
KJV
, “harlots”), 15, 16; 19:2,
RV
, for
KJV
, “whore.”¶
HARM
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 2556), “evil,” is rendered “harm” in Acts 16:28; 28:5. See
EVIL
.
2.
(
$
, 4190), “evil,” generally of a more malignant sort than No. 1, is
translated “harm” in Acts 28:21. See
EVIL
.
3.
(
/
, 824): see
AMISS
.
4.
$
(
> $
, 5196) primarily denotes “wantonness, insolence”: then, “an act of
wanton violence, an outrage, injury,” 2 Cor. 12:10,
RV
, “injuries,”
KJV
, “reproaches”