ΣΚΛΗΡΑΙ, σκληραι
SKLĒRAI, sklērai
Sounds Like: sklee-RAI
Translations: hard, harsh, difficult, severe
From the root: ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is physically hard or rigid, or metaphorically difficult, harsh, or severe. It can refer to a person's character as unyielding or stubborn, or to circumstances that are burdensome or oppressive. In the provided context, it describes commands or tasks that are not difficult to keep.
Inflection: Feminine, Nominative or Vocative Plural
Strong’s number: G4642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 16:343
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
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
- ΣΚΛΗΡΑ — hard, harsh, severe, difficult, stubborn, a hard, a harsh, a severe, a difficult, a stubborn
- 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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