Greek a / g:adv · G4642
σκληρός
sklerossklay-ros'
hard
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sklērós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4642is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4642
dry, i.e. hard or tough (figuratively, harsh, severe)
The King James renders it: fierce, hard.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
skleros is rendered "hard". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 25:24Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
Matthew 25:24σκληρὸς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hard2
- Difficult1
- harsh1
- strong1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκληρύνω | skleryno | to harden | Uses6 |
| σκληροκαρδία | sklerokardia | hardness of heart | Uses2 |
| σκληρότης | sklerotes | hardness | Uses1 |
| σκληροτράχηλος | sklerotrachelos | stiff-necked | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σκληρῶν2
- σκληρόν1
- σκληρός1
- σκληρὸς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural1A-GPN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
Matthew
one use
Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
- σκληρὸςsklerosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: hard
John
one use
On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
- σκληρόςsklerosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Difficult
Acts
one use
We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
- σκληρόνskleronadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: hard
James
one use
Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.
- σκληρῶνskleronadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: strong
Jude
one use
to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
- σκληρῶνskleronadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: harsh
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.