Word Study · Strong's G4457 · Greek

πώρωσις

porosis

po'-ro-sis

Strong's 1890 spelling: pṓrōsis

“stupidity or callousness”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

stupidity or callousness

Rendered in the KJV as

blindness, hardness.

3
occurrencesin the New Testament
3 of 27
New Testament bookswhere the word stands
3
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 3 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

πωρώσει1
πώρωσιν1
πώρωσις1

How it is rendered · 2

hardness2
a hardening1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 3

noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1
noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1
noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1

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N-ASF · 1
N-DSF · 1
N-NSF · 1

All 3, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Mark1 of 3 · 33%
Romans1 of 3 · 33%
Ephesians1 of 3 · 33%

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Mark1 occurrence

Mark 3:5πωρώσειpōrōseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularJesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.here: hardness

Romans1 occurrence

Romans 11:25πώρωσιςpōrōsisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singularI do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.here: a hardening

Ephesians1 occurrence

Ephesians 4:18πώρωσινpōrōsinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singularThey are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.here: hardness

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