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Isaiah 48:4
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Isaiah 48:4
4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
4†Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy necke is an yron sinew, and thy brow brasse:
- Heb. hard.
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DEFINED WORDS
Isaiah 48:4
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Stubbornly fixed; refusing to yield.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A figure of rigid, unyielding obstinacy, compared to an iron tendon.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The prominent ridge over the eye, forming an arch above the orbit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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Open the full verse study9And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
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Open the full verse study11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study1HE, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
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Open the full verse study4¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
9As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
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Open the full verse study5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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Open the full verse study15Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
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Open the full verse study3O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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Open the full verse study27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?
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Open the full verse study5For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
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Open the full verse study3Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
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Open the full verse study5Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
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Open the full verse study8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
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Open the full verse study13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
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Open the full verse study12¶ Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
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Open the full verse study8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
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Open the full verse study14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.
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Open the full verse study20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
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Open the full verse study16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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Open the full verse study13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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Open the full verse study3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
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Open the full verse study26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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Open the full verse study16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
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Open the full verse study28But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
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