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# obstinate

«obstinate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Stubborn; refusing to change your mind or to do as you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (obstinate, more obstinate, most obstinate)

### meaning for a pupil

Stubborn; refusing to change your mind or to do as you are told. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Torah says God made Sihon's heart obstinate so that he would refuse Israel passage and be defeated. Interpretation: Commentators discuss how God can harden a heart, and often say a person first chooses stubbornness himself. In the primary lessons: a prince or animal who will not move or give way

### examples

- But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. (Torah DEU.2.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/#x1)
- Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (Prophets ISA.48.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/#x2)
- Don't be obstinate; just try it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/#x3)
- The obstinate goat would not move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/#x4)
- He was obstinate and would not say sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1061/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «obstinate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/obstinate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.