Reference: Hard
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Besides other meanings which are still in use, 'hard' sometimes means close: Jg 9:52 'And Abimelech
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And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done me be upon you I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight May the LORD judge between you and me."
'It came about, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to the LORD the males, the first offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
and a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.
Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.
and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.