DIFFICULT, a. L., easy to be made or done to make or do.
1. Hard to be made, done or performed not easy attended with labor and pains as, our task is difficult. It is difficult to persuade men to abandon vice. It is difficult to ascend a steep hill, or travel a bad road.
2. Hard to be pleased not easily wrought upon not readily yielding not compliant unaccommodating rigid austere not easily managed or persuaded as a difficult man a person of a difficult temper.
3. Hard to be ascended as a hill, traveled as a road, or crossed as a river, &c. We say, a difficult ascent a difficult road a difficult river to cross &c.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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