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Psalm 95

Psa. 95:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Harden
qashah (Hebrew #7185)
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
KJV usage: be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).
Pronounce: kaw-shaw'
Origin: a primitive root
not your heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
, as in the κprovocation
mriybah (Hebrew #4808)
quarrel
KJV usage: provocation, strife.
Pronounce: mer-ee-baw'
Origin: from 7378
t, and as in the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of temptation
maccah (Hebrew #4531)
a testing, of men (judicial) or of God (querulous)
KJV usage: temptation, trial.
Pronounce: mas-saw'
Origin: from 5254
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
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Ex. 17:2,7• 2And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?
 7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not? (Ex. 17:2,7)
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Num. 14:2• 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died! (Num. 14:2)
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Deut. 6:16• 16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. (Deut. 6:16)
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contention.

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Day,
Heart,
To Tempt; Temptation,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Harden.
Ex. 8:15• 15And Pharaoh saw that there was respite; and he hardened his heart, and hearkened not to them, as Jehovah had said. (Ex. 8:15)
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1 Sam. 6:6• 6And why will ye harden your heart, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? When he had wrought mightily among them, did they not let them go, and they departed? (1 Sam. 6:6)
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Dan. 5:20• 20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him; (Dan. 5:20)
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Acts 19:9• 9But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. (Acts 19:9)
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Rom. 2:5• 5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, (Rom. 2:5)
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Heb. 3:13• 13But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. (Heb. 3:13)
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Heb. 12:25• 25See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: (Heb. 12:25)
in the.
Ex. 17:2,7• 2And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?
 7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not? (Ex. 17:2,7)
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Num. 14:11,22,27• 11And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?
 22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
 27How long shall I bear with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. (Num. 14:11,22,27)
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Num. 20:13• 13These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them. (Num. 20:13)
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Deut. 1:34‑35• 34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,
 35None among these men, this evil generation, shall in any wise see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers! (Deut. 1:34‑35)
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Deut. 6:16• 16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. (Deut. 6:16)
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Heb. 3:8‑9,15‑19• 8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
 9where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.
 15in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;
 16(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
 17And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?
 19And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;) (Heb. 3:8‑9,15‑19)
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Jude 5• 5But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed. (Jude 5)
provocation.
Heb. contention.
• Grace rejected must end in judgment. Hence Israel is warned not to act as their fathers who hardened their hearts in the wilderness. (“Psalms 95” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Harden not your heart, as at Meribahd, as in the day of Massahe, in the wilderness;

JND Translation Notes

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d
Strife.
e
Temptation.