1. (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

2. (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

3. (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.

4. (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

4769. stulos -- a pillar
... pillar. From stuo (to stiffen; properly akin to the base of histemi); a post
("style"), ie (figuratively) support -- pillar. see GREEK histemi. ...
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5142. trepho -- to make to grow, to nourish, feed
... A primary verb (properly, threpho; but perhaps strengthened from the base of trope
through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, ie Fatten (by ...
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3332. yatsaq -- to pour, cast, flow
... primitive root; properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication,
to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow ...
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7185. qashah -- to be hard, severe or fierce
... 1), hard thing (1), hard-pressed (1), harden (2), hardened (1), hardens (2), harsher
(1), made our hard (2), seem hard (1), severe (2), stiffen (2), stiffened ...
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Brokenness
... Then it is, we can stiffen our necks and refuse to repent or we can bow the head
and say, "Yes, Lord." Brokenness in daily experience is simply the response of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter i brokenness.htm

Cheer Up, My Comrades!
... not the power to use it. It might actually stiffen for no reason but because
he had not moved it. Do you not think that, before ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 26 1880/cheer up my comrades.htm

Virtues of the Mantle. It Pleads in Its Own Defence.
... false too. For who would not find it expedient, in cold and heat, to stiffen
with feet bare rather than in a shoe with feet bound? A ...
/.../tertullian/on the pallium/chapter v virtues of the mantle.htm

Leadership for Service
... If, therefore, a man rises to leadership, and finds his elbow-room enlarging, let
him stiffen his sense of duty to correspond, or there will be trouble. ...
/.../the social principles of jesus/chapter vii leadership for service.htm

The Eyes of the Heart.
... Him to the test in life, trusting His death to square up one's sin score, trusting
His power to clean the heart and sweeten the spirit, and stiffen the will. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/the eyes of the heart.htm

When Shall These Things Be?
... many times been scattered; but this siege was to end in capture, and no angel of
the Lord would stalk by night through the sleeping host, to stiffen sleep into ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/when shall these things be.htm

Circumcision Given as a Sign, that the Jews Might be Driven Away ...
... "And God himself proclaimed by Moses, speaking thus: And circumcise the
hardness of your hearts, and no longer stiffen the neck. ...
/.../chapter xvi circumcision given as a.htm

Against those who Maintain that the Spirit is in the Rank Neither ...
... men, if it were not under the oversight of a master, would be most pitiable; as
is the condition of the apostate powers who, because they stiffen their neck ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/chapter xx against those who.htm

That if Men had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, the ...
... those which are composed of slack and soft nerves: we can put them in motion, or
stretch them out, or bend and twist them, or contract and stiffen them, as we ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 24 that if men had.htm

The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne
... faint not' is added to 'despise not,' so including the two opposite and yet closely
connected forms of misuse of sorrow, according as we stiffen our wills ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the peaceable fruits of sorrows.htm

Stiffen (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible;
as, to stiffen cloth with starch. ...Stiffen (3 Occurrences). ...
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Stiffened (7 Occurrences)
... & pp) of Stiffen. ... Jeremiah 17:23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear,
And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction. ...
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Stiff (23 Occurrences)

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Necked (3 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 17:23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen
their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction. (See NIV). ...
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Gum (3 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or
a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. ...
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Rib (5 Occurrences)
... strength to the vessel. 4. (n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder,
beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it. 5. (n.) One of ...
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Stay (221 Occurrences)
... (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. 25. (n.) Strictly,
a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. Int. ...
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Hem (14 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Border; edge; margin. 7. (n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling
over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge. ...
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Harden (22 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen;
to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make ...
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Stiffen (3 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
(DBY NAS)

2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He hath sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that His fierce anger may turn away from you.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 17:23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.
(YLT NAS RSV)

Stiffen

Stiffened (7 Occurrences)

Stiff (23 Occurrences)

Necked (3 Occurrences)

Gum (3 Occurrences)

Rib (5 Occurrences)

Stay (221 Occurrences)

Hem (14 Occurrences)

Harden (22 Occurrences)

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