KJV Dictionary Definition: harden

harden

H`ARDEN, v.t. h`ardn. To make hard or more hard; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden iron or steel; to harden clay.

1. To confirm in effrontery; to make impudent; as, to harden the face.

2. To make obstinate, unyielding or refractory; as, to harden the neck. Jer.19.

3. To confirm in wickedness, opposition or enmity; to make obdurate.

Why then do ye harden your hearts, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians hardened their hearts? 1 Sam.6.

So God is said to harden the heart, when he withdraws the influences of his spirit from men, and leaves them to pursue their own corrupt inclinations.

4. To make insensible or unfeeling; as, to harden one against impressions of pity or tenderness.

5. To make firm; to endure with constancy.

I would harden myself in sorrow. Job.6.

6. To inure; to render firm or less liable to injury, by exposure or use; as, to harden to a climate or to labor.

H`ARDEN, v.i. h`ardn. To become hard or more hard; to acquire solidity or more compactness. Mortar hardens by drying.

1. To become unfeeling.

2. To become inured.

3. To indurate, as flesh.

hardened

H`ARDENED, pp. Made hard, or more hard or compact; made unfeeling; made obstinate; confirmed in error or vice.

hardener

H`ARDENER, n. He or that which makes hard, or more firm and compact.

hardening

H`ARDENING, ppr. Making hard or more compact; making obdurate or unfeeling; confirming; becoming more hard.

H`ARDENING, n. The giving a greater degree of hardness to bodies than they had before.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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