שְׁרִירוּתshᵉrîyrûwth

firmness, always = stubbornness (Jeremiah 9:13; Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 23:17; Deuteronomy 29:18; Psalms 81:13)

Pronunciation: sher-ee-rooth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8307

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 29:19 “Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, ‘I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.’ This would lead to utter ruin!
  • Psalms 81:12 So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.
  • Jeremiah 3:17 In that day Jerusalem will be known as ‘The Throne of the Lord.’ All nations will come there to honor the Lord. They will no longer stubbornly follow their own evil desires.
  • Jeremiah 7:24 “But my people would not listen to me. They kept doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.
  • Jeremiah 9:14 Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.
  • Jeremiah 11:8 but your ancestors did not listen or even pay attention. Instead, they stubbornly followed their own evil desires. And because they refused to obey, I brought upon them all the curses described in this covenant.’”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).