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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• 2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
 7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord 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 congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! (Num. 14:2)
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Deut. 6:16• 16Ye shall not tempt the Lord 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• 15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said. (Ex. 8:15)
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1 Sam. 6:6• 6Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? (1 Sam. 6:6)
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Dan. 5:20• 20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: (Dan. 5:20)
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Acts 19:9• 9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. (Acts 19:9)
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Rom. 2:5• 5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; (Rom. 2:5)
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Heb. 3:13• 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (Heb. 3:13)
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Heb. 12:25• 25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Heb. 12:25)
in the.
Ex. 17:2,7• 2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
 7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not? (Ex. 17:2,7)
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Num. 14:11,22,27• 11And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
 22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
 27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, 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• 13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them. (Num. 20:13)
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Deut. 1:34‑35• 34And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
 35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, (Deut. 1:34‑35)
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Deut. 6:16• 16Ye shall not tempt the Lord 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:
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
 15While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
 16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
 19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Heb. 3:8‑9,15‑19)
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Jude 5• 5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. (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.