Word

πώρωσις

pṓrōsis · G4457 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

unwillingness to learn, mental stubbornness, closed mind

Stubborn unwillingness to learn

Examples
Mark 3:5 After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Romans 11:25 For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
Ephesians 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

καρδίαheart 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐπίon 2
διάthrough 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Unwillingness to learn, mental stubbornness, closed mind27.52: The noun names the resulting state of a hardened, closed mind. Paul writes of the Gentiles' former condition, “because of the hardness of their heart” (Ephesians 4:18).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πωρόω pōróō · G4456 · to cause to be completely unwilling to learn, to cause the mind to be closed · 5×πώρωσιςpṓrōsis · G4457

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πωρωσεως, ἡ (πωρόω, which see), properly, the covering with a callus; tropically,…

πωρωσεως, ἡ (πωρόω, which see), properly, the covering with a callus; tropically, obtuseness of mental discernment, dulled perception: γέγονε τίνι, the mind of one has been blunted (R. V. a hardening hath befallen), Rom 11:25; τῆς καρδίας (hardening of heart), of stubbornness, obduracy, Mk 3:5; Eph 4:18. ((Hippocrates))

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Be Willing To Learn3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0