σκληρός
sklēros · hard
Greek word · Strong’s number G4642 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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sklēros (σκληρός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hard”.
Harsh.
How to say it
sklē·ros
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
- Difficult to accept, severe; violent.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hard ×3
- harsh things ×1
- strong ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 25:24
And the one who had received the one talent also came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter;
- John 6:60
So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This word is hard; who can listen to it?”
- Acts 26:14
And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
- James 3:4
Look also at the ships: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot wants.
- Jude 1:15
to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.