Lexical Summary
sklérunó: To harden
Original Word: σκληρύνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: sklérunó
Pronunciation: sklay-ROO-no
Phonetic Spelling: (sklay-roo'-no)
KJV: harden
NASB: harden, becoming hardened, hardened, hardens
Word Origin: [from G4642 (σκληρός - hard)]
1. to indurate
2. (figuratively) render stubborn
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
harden.
From skleros; to indurate, i.e. (figuratively) render stubborn -- harden.
see GREEK skleros
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 4645 sklērýnō – properly, to harden; become inflexible (literally "dried out"); (figuratively) obstinately stubborn, resisting what God says is right. See 4642 (sklēros).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
sklérosDefinitionto harden
NASB Translationbecoming hardened (1), harden (3), hardened (1), hardens (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4645: σκληρύνωσκληρύνω (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 92 (88)); 1 aorist subjunctive 2 person plural
σκληρύνητε; passive, imperfect
ἐσκληρυνομην; 1 aorist
ἐσκληρυνθην; (
σκληρός, which see); the
Sept. for
הִקְשָׁה and
הִזֵּק,
to make hard, to harden; properly, in
Hippocrates and
Galen; metaphorically,
to render obstinate, stubborn (
A. V. to harden):
τινα,
Romans 9:18 (in opposed to those who interpret it
to treat harshly, cf. Fritzsche, vol. ii., p. 323f; (cf., too, Meyer at the passage));
τήν καρδίαν τίνος,
Hebrews 3:8, 15 and
Hebrews 4:7 (from
Psalm 94:8
