σκληροκαρδία
sklērokardia · hardness of heart
Greek word · Strong’s number G4641 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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sklērokardia (σκληροκαρδία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hardness of heart”.
Refusing to listen to God.
How to say it
sklē·ro·kar·di·a
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
- Stubbornness that refuses to hear God.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 19:8
He says to them, “Moses, because of your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
- 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 themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him raised.