ΣΚΛΗΡΟΝ, σκληρον
SKLĒRON, sklēron
Sounds Like: SKLEE-ron
Translations: hard, harsh, difficult, severe, stubborn, a hard thing, a harsh thing
From the root: ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is hard, harsh, or difficult. It can refer to physical hardness, but more often it describes something that is severe, unyielding, or stubborn, such as a harsh saying, a difficult task, or a stubborn heart. It is used to qualify nouns, indicating their quality of being hard or difficult.
Inflection: Neuter, Singular, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 21:11, 21:12, 45:5
- Deuteronomy — 1:17, 15:18, 31:27
- Tobit — 13:12
- Proverbs — 17:27
- Isaiah — 5:30, 8:12, 21:2, 28:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 26:14
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
- 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
- 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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