noun · feminine
pōrōsias
Strong’sG4457
hardness of heart
stem pōrōsi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* πώρωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< πωρόω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4457 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpo'-ro-sis
stupidity or callousness
Fromfrom G4456;
King Jamesblindness, hardness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
process by which the extremities of fractured bones are reunited by a callus, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, obtuseness, blindness, τῆς καρδίας NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pōrōsias1×πώρωσις | pōrōsiais |
| object accusative | pōrōsian1×πώρωσιν | pōrōsiain |
| direct address vocative | pōrōsiar | pōrōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pōrōsiau | pōrōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | pōrōsia1×πωρώσει | pōrōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pōrōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
pōrōsias“hardening”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 11:25… hina mē aveiō heautoi fronimois, hoti pōrōsias apo mereu to Israēl genatē achri …… you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel …
pōrōsian“hardness”objectaccusative singular1×
Ephesians 4:18… tan arōntan en autei, dia tan pōrōsian tau kardiau auteiu,… is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
pōrōsia“hardness”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 3:5… autoin meta orgau, sulluporōntos epi ta pōrōsia tau kardiau autoiu, legatō to anthrōpo; …… with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to …