Lexicon :: Strong's H3985 - mā'ēn

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to let the people go.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.

Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us,

Now a certain man of [fn]the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of the LORD, “Please strike me.” But the man refused to strike him.

When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, she said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he refused to sell you, because Naboth is no longer alive, but dead.”

“They refused to listen and obey,

And did not remember Your wondrous acts which You had performed among them;

So they stiffened their necks and [in their rebellion] appointed a leader in order to return them to slavery in Egypt.

But You are a God of forgiveness,

Gracious and merciful and compassionate,

[fn]Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;

And You did not abandon them.

“My soul refuses to touch them;

Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].

In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;

In the night my hand was [fn]stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;

My soul refused to be comforted.

They did not keep the covenant of God

And refused to walk according to His law;

“Because I called and you refused [to answer],

I stretched out my hand and no one has paid attention [to my offer];

The violence of the wicked will [return to them and] drag them away [like fish caught in a net],

Because they refuse to act with justice.

The desire of the lazy kills him,

For his hands refuse to labor;

But if you refuse and rebel,

You shall be devoured by the sword.”

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,

And there has been no spring rain.

Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute;

You refuse to be ashamed.

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?

You [have seen their faithless heart and] have stricken them,

But they did not weaken;

You have consumed them,

But they refused to take correction or instruction.

They have made their faces harder than rock;

They have refused to repent and return to You.

“Why then has this people of Jerusalem

Turned away with a perpetual turning away [from Me]?

They hold tightly to [fn]deceit (idolatry);

They refuse to repent and return [to God].

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit [oppression upon oppression and deceit upon deceit];

Through deceit they refuse to know (understand) Me,” says the LORD.

Why has my pain been perpetual

And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?

Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook

With water that is unreliable?

Thus says the LORD,

“A [fn]voice is heard in Ramah,

Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping.

Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children;

She refuses to be comforted for her children,

Because they are gone.”

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“The children of Israel are oppressed,

And the children of Judah as well;

And all who took them captive have held them tightly,

They have refused to let them go.

They will not return to the land of Egypt,

But Assyria will be their king [bringing them into captivity]

Because they refused to return to Me.