שְׁרִירוּת sherirut
Hebrew word for “stubbornness” · Strong’s H8307 · used 10 times in 10 verses
Meaning
stubbornness, hardness, firmness
How it is translated
Glosses given for sherirut in context, with how often each is used:
- stubbornness 10
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Deuteronomy 29 (1), Psalms 81 (1), Jeremiah 3 (1), Jeremiah 7 (1), Jeremiah 9 (1), Jeremiah 11 (1), Jeremiah 13 (1), Jeremiah 16 (1), Jeremiah 18 (1), Jeremiah 23 (1)
Forms
- בשׁררות 4
- שׁררות 4
- בשׁרירות 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sherirut more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- לֵב lev “heart” 10
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 10
- רַע ra “bad” 7
- אַחַר achar “after” 5
- מוֹעֵצָה moetsah “counsel” 2
- שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 5
- אֹזֶן ozen “ear” 2
- נָטָה natah “to stretch” 2
- שָׁלוֹם shalom “peace” 2
- דָּבָר davar “word” 3
- זֹאת zot “this” 2
- אָב av “father” 2
Key verses
The verses using sherirut that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 29:19 — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination…
- Psalms 81:12 — So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Jeremiah 3:17 — At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither…
- Jeremiah 7:24 — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
- Jeremiah 9:14 — But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
- Jeremiah 11:8 — Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of…
- Jeremiah 13:10 — This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them,…
- Jeremiah 16:12 — And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
- Jeremiah 18:12 — And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
- Jeremiah 23:17 — They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own…
See all 10 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.