Stiffen
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Stiffen (3 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more. (DBY NAS)

2 Chronicles 30:8 Now 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 His fierce anger may turn away from you. (See NAS)

Jeremiah 17:23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction. (YLT NAS RSV)

Thesaurus
Stiffen (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible;
as, to stiffen cloth with starch. ...Stiffen (3 Occurrences). ...
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Stiffened (7 Occurrences)
... & pp) of Stiffen. ... Jeremiah 17:23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear,
And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction. ...
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Stiff (23 Occurrences)

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Necked (3 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 17:23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen
their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction. (See NIV). ...
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Gum (3 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or
a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. ...
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Rib (5 Occurrences)
... strength to the vessel. 4. (n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder,
beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it. 5. (n.) One of ...
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Stay (221 Occurrences)
... (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. 25. (n.) Strictly,
a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. Int. ...
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Hem (14 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Border; edge; margin. 7. (n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling
over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge. ...
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Harden (22 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen;
to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make ...
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Greek
4769. stulos -- a pillar
... pillar. From stuo (to stiffen; properly akin to the base of histemi); a post
("style"), ie (figuratively) support -- pillar. see GREEK histemi. ...
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5142. trepho -- to make to grow, to nourish, feed
... A primary verb (properly, threpho; but perhaps strengthened from the base of trope
through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, ie Fatten (by ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

2. (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

3. (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.

4. (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

Strong's Hebrew
3332. yatsaq -- to pour, cast, flow
... primitive root; properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication,
to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow ...
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7185. qashah -- to be hard, severe or fierce
... 1), hard thing (1), hard-pressed (1), harden (2), hardened (1), hardens (2), harsher
(1), made our hard (2), seem hard (1), severe (2), stiffen (2), stiffened ...
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