שְׁרִירוּת
stubbornness
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8307 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 8 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 3:17 שְׁרִר֖וּת n c fs cs At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
- Jeremiah 7:24 בִּ/שְׁרִר֖וּת prep + n c fs cs But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
- Jeremiah 9:14 שְׁרִר֣וּת n c fs cs but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;
- Jeremiah 11:8 בִּ/שְׁרִיר֖וּת prep + n c fs cs Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone 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.
- Jeremiah 13:10 בִּ/שְׁרִר֣וּת prep + n c fs cs This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 16:12 שְׁרִר֣וּת n c fs cs and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
- Jeremiah 18:12 שְׁרִר֥וּת n c fs cs But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
- Jeremiah 23:17 בִּ/שְׁרִר֤וּת prep + n c fs cs They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“stubbornness” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שרירות (shᵉrîyrûwth). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. It appears 10 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Deuteronomy 29:19, it enters the text early. Where the King James Version says “imagination,” newer translations reach for “stubbornness” (Berean Standard Bible) and “stubbornness of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8307 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 8 verses 80%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 10%
- Psalms 1 verse 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 80%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 10%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Imagination 8×
- American Standard Version: Stubbornness 8×, After the stubbornness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stubbornness 7×, Stubborn 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stubbornness of 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8307 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8307 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8307 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8307 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- stubbornness, hardness, firmness
Word origin
שְׁרִירוּת, usu. שְׁרִרוּת n.f. firmness, always = stubbornness
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שרר (shârar) (H8324) — enemy.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H8307 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁרִר֣וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 9:14 | 2 |
| בִּ/שְׁרִיר֖וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 11:8 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁרִיר֣וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 81:12 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁרִר֖וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 7:24 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁרִר֣וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 13:10 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁרִר֤וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 23:17 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁרִר֥וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 29:19 | 1 |
| שְׁרִר֖וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 3:17 | 1 |
| שְׁרִר֥וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 18:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8307, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- שר shôr H8270 navel
- שרה shêrâh H8285 bracelet
- שריר shârîyr H8306 sinew
- שרר shôrer H8326 navel
- ששר shâshar H8350 vermilion
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
