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Zechariah 7

Zech. 7:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But they refused
ma'en (Hebrew #3985)
to refuse
KJV usage: refuse, X utterly.
Pronounce: maw-ane'
Origin: a primitive root
to hearken
qashab (Hebrew #7181)
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken
KJV usage: attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.
Pronounce: kaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
, and τpulled away
carar (Hebrew #5637)
to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory
KJV usage: X away, backsliding, rebellious, revolter(-ing), slide back, stubborn, withdrew.
Pronounce: saw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
the shoulder
katheph (Hebrew #3802)
the shoulder (proper, i.e. upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang); figuratively, side-piece or lateral projection of anything
KJV usage: arm, corner, shoulder(-piece), side, undersetter.
Pronounce: kaw-thafe'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to clothe
, and φstopped
kabad (Hebrew #3513)
a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, X be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, X more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Pronounce: kaw-bad'
Origin: or kabed {kaw-bade'}
their ears
'ozen (Hebrew #241)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
KJV usage: + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
Pronounce: o'-zen
Origin: from 238
, that they should not hear
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
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gave a backsliding shoulder.
φ
made heavy,
Isa. 6:10• 10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed. (Isa. 6:10)
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they refused.
Zech. 1:4• 4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hearken nor attend unto me, saith Jehovah. (Zech. 1:4)
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Ex. 10:3• 3And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: How long dost thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. (Ex. 10:3)
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2 Kings 17:13‑15• 13And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.
 14But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
 15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them. (2 Kings 17:13‑15)
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2 Chron. 33:10• 10And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they did not hearken. (2 Chron. 33:10)
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Neh. 9:17,26,29• 17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
 26But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
 29And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. (Neh. 9:17,26,29)
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Prov. 1:24‑32• 24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
 25and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
 26I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
 27when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
 28--then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
 29Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
 30they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
 31therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
 32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish. (Prov. 1:24‑32)
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Isa. 1:19‑20• 19If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;
 20but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. (Isa. 1:19‑20)
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Jer. 6:16‑17• 16Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
 17Also I have set watchmen over you:--Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. (Jer. 6:16‑17)
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Jer. 7:24• 24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. (Jer. 7:24)
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Jer. 13:10• 10This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing. (Jer. 13:10)
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Jer. 26:5‑6• 5to hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent unto you, even rising early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened,
 6--then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. (Jer. 26:5‑6)
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Jer. 35:15• 15And I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them; and ye shall dwell in the land that I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me. (Jer. 35:15)
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Jer. 36:31• 31And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened. (Jer. 36:31)
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Jer. 44:16• 16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee, (Jer. 44:16)
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Ezek. 3:7• 7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are hard of forehead and stiff of heart. (Ezek. 3:7)
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Hos. 4:16• 16For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture. (Hos. 4:16)
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Dan. 9:5• 5we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances. (Dan. 9:5)
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Zeph. 3:2• 2She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God. (Zeph. 3:2)
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Acts 7:51• 51O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also. (Acts 7:51)
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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)
pulled away the shoulder.
Heb. gave a backsliding shoulder.
Neh. 9:29• 29And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. (Neh. 9:29)
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Jer. 8:5• 5Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. (Jer. 8:5)
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Hos. 4:16• 16For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture. (Hos. 4:16)
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Heb. 10:38‑39• 38But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.
 39But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul. (Heb. 10:38‑39)
stopped.
Heb. made heavy.
Psa. 58:4‑5• 4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
 5Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely. (Psa. 58:4‑5)
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Isa. 6:10• 10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed. (Isa. 6:10)
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Acts 7:57• 57And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord; (Acts 7:57)
• There was thus not only indifference, but there was also positive enmity to the word of God, even open rebellion against Him and His claims...(Neh. 9:29). (“Zechariah 7” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.