שְׁרִירוּת
she.ri.rut (H8307)
stubbornness
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# H8307 (שְׁרִירוּת) – Stubbornness The Hebrew word *sheririut* carries the straightforward meaning of stubbornness, appearing ten times in the biblical text. This frequency, though modest, suggests the concept held enough importance for biblical authors to reference it repeatedly when describing human resistance or refusal to comply. The term itself appears to function as a character descriptor in biblical narratives, identifying a particular quality of human behavior or disposition. Given its abstract noun form (the "-ut" suffix typically marks abstract nouns in Hebrew), *sheririut* denotes not merely a single stubborn action but rather stubbornness as an ingrained trait or persistent state. This grammatical structure indicates the word describes a settled disposition rather than an isolated moment of defiance. The modest number of occurrences across the entire biblical corpus suggests that while stubbornness was recognized as a notable human characteristic worthy of naming, it was not among the most frequently discussed concepts. The consistent meaning across these ten appearances indicates a stable, well-understood term for what biblical writers regarded as a recognizable and significant aspect of human nature, particularly in contexts where compliance or obedience was expected.
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and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”
They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’