noun · feminine
sklērokardias
Strong’sG4641
hardness of heart
stem sklērokardi-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
† σκληρο-καρδία, -ας, ἡ
(< σκληρός, καρδία), [in LXX: De 10:16, Je 4:4 (לֵבָב עׇרְלָה), Si 16:10 (cf. καρδία σκληρά, ib. 3:26, 27) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4641 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
hardness of heart, LXX+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 | sklērokardias | sklērokardiais |
| object accusative | sklērokardian3×σκληροκαρδίαν | sklērokardiain |
| direct address vocative | sklērokardiar | sklērokardiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sklērokardiau | sklērokardiaiu |
| to, for dative | sklērokardia | sklērokardiai |
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
sklērokardia 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
sklērokardian“hardness of heart”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 19:8legatō autoi hoti Mōusos pros tan sklērokardian vu epitrepata vi apoluara tain gunaikain …… divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart. But it was not this way …
Mark 10:5… de Iēsus legata autoi; Pros tan sklērokardian vu grafata vi tan entolan houtan;… commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
Mark 16:14… kai oneidizata tan apistian autoiu kai sklērokardian hoti toi theaserantoi auton egerorēnton ouk …… rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those …