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# שְׁרִרוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8307

**firmness** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

firmness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8307/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁרִירוּת: n.f. firmness stubborness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8307/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** usually שְׁרִרוּת n.f. firmness, always = stubborness; only cstr. שׁ׳, sq. לֵב: Je 9:13; 13:10; 23:17; Dt 29:18 ψ 81:13 (שְׁרִירוּת); שׁ׳ לִבָּם הָרָע Je 3:17; 7:24; 11:8 (שְׁרִי׳), so (לִבּוֹ) 16:12; 18:12.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the stubbornness (10).

## In the verses

[Psalms 81:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.13/#tree)

וָֽ֭אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּ בִּשְׁרִיר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם יֵ֝לְכ֗וּ בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I gave.it.over in the.stubbornness their.heart their they.walked in their.own schemes

*JPS 1917:* So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

[Jeremiah 9:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.13/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ אַחֲרֵ֖י שְׁרִר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם וְאַחֲרֵי֙ הַבְּעָלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לִמְּד֖וּם אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.have.walked after the.stubbornness their.own.heart their and after the Baals which they taught.them ancestors their

*JPS 1917:* But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8307.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8307/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).