πώρωσις
pōrōsis · hardening
Greek word · Strong’s number G4457 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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pōrōsis (πώρωσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hardening”.
Hardness, hardening (of the heart).
How to say it
pō·rō·sis
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Heart and mind growing insensitive.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hardness ×2
- hardening ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Mark 3:5
And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their heart, he says 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 to be unaware, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in your own estimation: that a hardening in part has come upon Israel until the fullness of the nations has come in;
- Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;