קָשַׁח qâshach — to be (causatively, make) unfeeling
Translated in the KJV as harden.
a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) unfeeling.
qâshach in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
הִקְשִׁ֣יחַ Job 39:16 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
תַּקְשִׁ֥יחַ Isa 63:17 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›