ΣΚΛΗΡΟΙ, σκληροι
SKLĒROI, sklēroi
Sounds Like: SKLEE-roy
Translations: hard, harsh, severe, cruel, stubborn, difficult, rough
From the root: ΣΚΛΗΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is physically hard or unyielding, like a stone or a difficult task. It can also describe people or their actions as harsh, severe, cruel, or stubborn. It is used to convey a sense of rigidity, difficulty, or lack of compassion.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:289
Codex Sinaiticus
- Isaiah — 19:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
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
- 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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