ΣΚΛΗΡΑ, σκληρα
SKLĒRA, sklēra
Sounds Like: sklay-RAH
Translations: hard, harsh, severe, difficult, stubborn, a hard, a harsh, a severe, a difficult, a stubborn
From the root: ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as hard, harsh, or severe. It can refer to physical hardness, like a hard surface, or to a harsh or difficult situation, person, or statement. It can also imply stubbornness or obstinacy when describing a person or their heart.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 10:347
Justin Martyr
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:11
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 42:7, 42:30
- Deuteronomy — 26:6
- 1 Samuel — 1:15, 5:7
- 1 Kings — 12:13, 12:24
- 2 Chronicles — 10:13
- Judith — 9:13
- Psalms — 59:5
- Sirach — 3:26, 3:27
- Isaiah — 8:21
- Zephaniah — 1:14
- Enoch — 15:11, 27:2
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 1 — 4:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΚΗΡΑ — hard, harsh, difficult, severe, stubborn, unyielding, rough, cruel, violent, a hard, a harsh, a difficult, a severe, a stubborn, a unyielding, a rough, a cruel, a violent
- ΣΚΗΡΟΝ — hard, harsh, severe, difficult, rough, stubborn, unyielding
- ΣΚΛΗΡΑΙ — hard, harsh, difficult, severe
- ΣΚΛΗΡΑΝ — hard, a hard, harsh, a harsh, severe, a severe, difficult, a difficult
- ΣΚΛΗΡΑΣ — of hard, of harsh, of severe, of difficult, of stubborn
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟ — hard, harsh, severe, difficult, stubborn, unyielding, rough, cruel
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΙ — hard, harsh, severe, cruel, stubborn, difficult, rough
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΙΣ — hard, harsh, difficult, severe, stubborn, unyielding
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΝ — hard, harsh, difficult, severe, stubborn, a hard thing, a harsh thing
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ — hard, harsh, severe, difficult, stubborn, obstinate, rough, cruel
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΤΕΡΟΙ — harder, harsher, more difficult, more stubborn, more severe
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — harder, more difficult, harsher, more severe, more stubborn, more rigid
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ — harder, harsher, more difficult, more stubborn, more severe
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΤΗΤΑ — hardness, a hardness, stubbornness, a stubbornness, obstinacy, an obstinacy
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΥ — hard, harsh, difficult, severe, rough, stubborn, stiff, cruel, unyielding, a hard, a harsh, a difficult, a severe, a rough, a stubborn, a stiff, a cruel, an unyielding
- ΣΚΛΗΡΟΥΣ — hard, harsh, severe, difficult, rough, stubborn, cruel
- ΣΚΛΗΡΩ — (to) hard, (to) harsh, (to) severe, (to) difficult, (to) stubborn, (to) unyielding
- ΣΚΛΗΡΩΝ — hard, harsh, severe, difficult, cruel, stubborn, unyielding
- ΣΚΛΗΡΩΣ — hardly, severely, harshly, with difficulty
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