Hardly
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
the adverbial form of Hard, A No. 2, is used in Matthew 19:23; Mark 10:23; Luke 18:24 of the danger of riches.
"with labor, pain, trouble" (akin to mogos, "toil"), is found in some mss. in Luke 9:39 , instead of No. 3.
"with difficulty, scarcely, hardly" (akin to molos, "toil"), is used as an alternative for No. 2, and occurs in the most authentic mss. in Luke 9:39; it is rendered "hardly" in Acts 27:8 , AV. See Difficulty.
King James Dictionary [2]
H`ARDLY, adv. See Hard. With difficulty with great labor.
Recovering hardly what he lost before.
1. Scarcely barely almost not.
Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.
2. Not quite or wholly. The object is so distant we can hardly see it. The veal is hardly done. The writing is hardly completed. 3. Grudgingly, as an injury. 4. Severely unfavorably as, to think hardly of public measures. 5. Rigorously oppressively. The prisoners were hardly used or treated. 6. Unwelcomely harshly.
Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man.
7. Coarsely roughly not softly.
Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed
So hardly lodged.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( adv.) Severely; harshly; roughly.
(2): ( adv.) In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
(3): ( adv.) Unwillingly; grudgingly.
(4): ( adv.) Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
(5): ( adv.) Confidently; hardily.
(6): ( adv.) Certainly; surely; indeed.
