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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 congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God that we had died in this wilderness! (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 disobedient, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus. (Acts 19:9)
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Rom. 2:5• 5But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment, (Rom. 2:5)
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Heb. 3:13• 13But encourage yourselves each day while it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by [the] deceitfulness of sin. (Heb. 3:13)
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Heb. 12:25• 25Look that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if those did not escape, refusing as they did him speaking oracularly on earth, much more we that turn away from him from [the] heavens; (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 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 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, through the day of temptation in the wilderness
 9when your fathers tempted [me], proved [me], and saw my works forty years.
 15In that it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.
 16For who having heard provoked? But did not all that came out of Egypt by Moses?
 17And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest but to those that disobeyed?
 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 remind you, though once for all knowing all things, that [the] Lord having saved a people out of Egypt's land, in the second place destroyed those 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. (“Psalm 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;