noun · feminine
sklērotas
Strong’sG4643
hardness of heart
stem sklērot-once in the New Testament1 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.
σκληρότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< σκληρός), [in LXX: De 9:27 (קְשִׁי), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4643 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsklay-rot'-ace
callousness, i.e. (figuratively) stubbornness
Fromfrom G4642;
King Jameshardness.
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
hardness, opposed to μαλακότης, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of taste, harshness, οἴνου Refs 4th c.BC+
3 stiffness, rigidity, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 ἡ τῆς κοιλίης σ. costivity, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of persons, harshness, austerity, τοῦ δαίμονος Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | sklērotas | sklērotais |
| object accusative | sklērotan1×σκληρότητά | sklērotain |
| direct address vocative | sklērotar | sklērotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sklērotau | sklērotaiu |
| to, for dative | sklērota | sklērotai |
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
sklērota 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sklērotan“stubbornness”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 2:5“stubbornness”kata de tan sklērotan su kai ametanoētan kardian thēsaurizasō siauto …But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of …