Hard

King James Dictionary

H`ARD, a.

1. Firm solid compact not easily penetrated, or separated into parts not yielding to pressure applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft as hard wood hard flesh a hard apple. 2. Difficult not easy to the intellect.

In which are some things hard to be understood.  2 Peter 3

The hard causes they brought to Moses.  Exodus 18 .

3. Difficult of accomplishment not easy to be done or executed. A hard task a disease hard to cure.

Is any thing too hard for the Lord?  Genesis 18

4. Full of difficulties or obstacles not easy to be traveled as a hard way. 5. Painful difficult distressing.

Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.  Genesis 35

6. Laborious fatiguing attended with difficulty or pain, or both as hard work or labor hard duty hard service. 7. Oppressive rigorous severe cruel as hard bondage a hard master.  Exodus 1Is. 14 . 8. Unfeeling insensible not easily moved by pity not susceptible of kindness, mercy or other tender affections as a hard heart. 9. Severe harsh rough abusive.

Have you given him any hard words of late?

10. Unfavorable unkind implying blame of another as hard thoughts. 11. Severe rigorous oppressive. The enemy was compelled to submit to hard terms. So we say, a hard bargain hard conditions. 12. Unreasonable unjust. It is hard to punish a man for speculative opinions. It is a hard case. 13. Severe pinching with cold rigorous tempestuous as a hard winter hard weather. 14. Powerful forcible urging pressing close on.

The stag was too hard for the horse.

The disputant was too hard for his antagonist.

15. Austere rough acid sour as liquors.

The cider is hard.

16. Harsh stiff forced constrained unnatural.

Others--make the figures harder than the marble itself.

His diction is hard, his figures too bold.

17. Not plentiful not prosperous pressing distressing as hard times, when markets are bad, and money of course scarce. 18. Avaricious difficult in making bargains close.  Matthew 25 19. Rough of coarse features as a hard face or countenance. 20. Austere severe rigorous. 21. Rude unpolished or unintelligible.

A people of hard language.  Ezekiel 3

22. Coarse unpalatable or scanty as hard fare.

H`ARD, adv. Close near as in the phrase,hard by. In this phrase,the word retains its original sense of pressed, or pressing.

L. pressus.

1. With pressure with urgency hence, diligently laboriously earnestly vehemently importunately as, to work hard for a living.

And pray'd so hard for mercy from the prince.

2. With difficulty as, the vehicle moves hard. 3. Uneasily vexatiously. 4. Closely so as to raise difficulties.

The question is hard set.

5. Fast nimbly rapidly vehemently as, to run hard, that is, with pressure or urgency. 6. Violently with great force tempestuously as, the wind blows hard, or it blows hard. 7. With violence with a copious descent of water as, it rains hard. 8. With force as, to press hard.

Hard-a-lee, in seamen's language, an order to put the helm close to the lee side of the ship, to tack or keep her head to the wind also, that situation of the helm.

Hard-a-weather, an order to put the helm close to the weather or windward side of the ship also, that position of the helm.

Hard-a-port, an order to put the helm close to the larboard side of a ship.

Hard-a-starboard, an order to put the helm close to the starboard side of a ship.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

(2): ( adv.) So as to raise difficulties.

(3): ( superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; - applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

(4): ( superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

(5): ( superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

(6): ( superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

(7): ( superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

(8): ( superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

(9): ( superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

(10): ( n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

(11): ( superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; - said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

(12): ( superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

(13): ( superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

(14): ( superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

(15): ( adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

(16): ( adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

(17): ( adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

(18): ( adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

(19): ( adv.) Close or near.

(20): ( v. t.) To harden; to make hard.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HARD . Besides other meanings which are still in use, ‘hard’ sometimes means close:   Judges 9:52 ‘And Abimelech … went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire’;   Psalms 63:8 ‘My soul followeth hard after thee’;   Acts 18:7 ‘Justus … whose house joined hard to the synagogue.’ Cf.   Job 17:1 in Coverdale, ‘I am harde at deathes dore.’

Hardiness is used in Jdt 16:10 for courage: ‘the Medes were daunted at her hardiness’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘boldness’).

Hardly means either ‘harshly,’ as   Genesis 16:5 ‘Sarai dealt hardly with her,’ or ‘with difficulty,’ as   Exodus 13:15 ‘Pharaoh would hardly let us go’;   Matthew 19:23 ‘a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven’;   Luke 9:39 ‘bruising him, hardly departeth from him’;   Acts 27:8 ‘And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens.’ So Adams (  2 Peter 1:4 ) ‘He that hath done evil once, shall more hardly resist it at the next assault.’

Hardness for modern ‘hardship’ occurs in   2 Timothy 2:3 ‘endure hardness as a good soldier.’ Cf. Shakespeare, Cymb . iii. vi. 21

‘Hardness ever

Of hardiness is mother.’