Word

σκληροκαρδία

sklērokardía · G4641 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. stubborn, completely unyielding

    Pertaining to being obdurate and obstinate

    Examples

    Matthew 19:8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

    Mark 10:5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

    Mark 16:14 Later He appeared to the eleven disciples themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen from the dead.

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

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
ἀπερίτμητος aperítmētos · G564 · stubborn, completely unyielding
σκληροτράχηλος and ἀπερίτμητος both express spiritual obstinacy through different metaphors: σκληροτράχηλος pictures a stiff, unbending neck, while ἀπερίτμητος pictures uncircumcision as a figure for unyielding resistance to God. Both converge on the same concept of stubborn, unyielding resistance, realized through different metaphorical vehicles.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Stubborn, completely unyielding88.224
The noun names an unyielding, resistant disposition of heart. Jesus explains, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way” (Matthew 19:8).
Word family 7 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκληροκαρδιας, ἡ (σκληρός and καρδία), a Biblical word, the characteristic of one who is…
σκληροκαρδιας, ἡ (σκληρός and καρδία), a Biblical word, the characteristic of one who is σκληρός τήν καρδίαν (Prov 28:14), or σκληροκάρδιος (Prov 17:20; Ezek 3:7); hardness of heart: Mt 19:8; Mk 10:5; Mk 16:14; for לֵבָב עָרְלַת, Deut 10:16; Jer 4:4; Sir. 16:10; καρδία σκληρά, Sir. 3:26, 27. (Cf. Winer's Grammar, 26, 99 (94).)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

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