Genesis 49:7קָשָׁתָה
Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Exodus 7:3אַקְשֶׁה
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 1:17יִקְשֶׁה
Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
2 Chronicles 10:4הִקְשָׁה
“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
Nehemiah 9:16וַיַּקְשׁוּ
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Jeremiah 7:26וַיַּקְשׁוּ
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[קָשָׁה] vb. be hard, severe, fierce

Qal

1. be hard, difficult

2. be hard, severe

Niph. hardly bestead, hard pressed

Pi. she made hard in her bearing (had severe labour)

Hiph.

1. make difficult, difficulty

2. make severe, burdensome, yoke imposed by king

a. make hard, stiff, stubborn, fig. of obstinacy

b. shew stubbornness

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.