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title: שְׁרִרוּת — firmness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁרִרוּת (8307), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: firmness. BDB 1906: n.f. firmness stubborness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁרִרוּת

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«שְׁרִרוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **firmness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 8307 · **BDB:** שְׁרִירוּת

### Glosses

the.stubbornness (10)

### Meaning (OSHB)

firmness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8307/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. firmness stubborness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8307/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** usually שְׁרִרוּת n.f. firmness, always = stubborness; only cstr. שׁ׳, sq. לֵב: Je 9:13; 13:10; 23:17; Dt 29:18 ψ 81:13 (שְׁרִירוּת); שׁ׳ לִבָּם הָרָע Je 3:17; 7:24; 11:8 (שְׁרִי׳), so (לִבּוֹ) 16:12; 18:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁרִרוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8307/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 81:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.13/)

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וָֽ֭אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּ בִּשְׁרִיר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם יֵ֝לְכ֗וּ בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I gave.it.over in the.stubbornness their.heart their they.walked in their.own schemes

*JPS 1917:* So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

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[Jeremiah 9:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.13/)

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וַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ אַחֲרֵ֖י שְׁרִר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם וְאַחֲרֵי֙ הַבְּעָלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לִמְּד֖וּם אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.have.walked after the.stubbornness their.own.heart their and after the Baals which they taught.them ancestors their

*JPS 1917:* But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

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