Job 38:38
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
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Hardness
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2 Timothy 2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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σκληροκαρδία
sklērokardía · sklay-rok-ar-dee'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
hard-heartedness, i.e. (specially), destitution of (spiritual) perception
Strong's KJV usage: :--hardness of heart.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 19:8Strong's last: Mark 10:5
Open full G4641 profile →κακοπαθέω
kakopathéō · kak-op-ath-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to undergo hardship
Strong's KJV usage: :--be afflicted, endure afflictions (hardness), suffer trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:3Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:3
Open full G2553 profile →πώρωσις
pṓrōsis · po'-ro-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
stupidity or callousness
Strong's KJV usage: :--blindness, hardness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 3:5Strong's last: Mark 3:5
Open full G4457 profile →σκληρότης
sklērótēs · sklay-rot'-ace
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
callousness, i.e. (figuratively) stubbornness
Strong's KJV usage: :--hardness.
Strong's first: Romans 2:5Strong's last: Romans 2:5
Open full G4643 profile →מוּצָק
mûwtsâq · moo-tsawk'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
properly, fusion, i.e. literally, a casting (of metal); figuratively, a mass (of clay)
Strong's KJV usage: casting, hardness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 38:38Strong's last: Job 38:38
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G4457
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
G4641
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
no direct Strong's tag
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
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hardness
H'ARDNESS, noun [See Hard.] Firmness; close union of the component parts; compactness; solidity; the quality of bodies which resists impression; opposed to softness and fluidity.
1. Difficulty to be understood.
2. Difficulty to be executed or accomplished; as the hardness of an enterprise.
3. Scarcity; penury; difficulty of obtaining money; as the hardness of the times.
4. Obduracy; impenitence; confirmed state of wickedness; as hardness of heart.
5. Coarseness of features; harshness of look; as hardness of favor.
6. Severity of cold; rigor; as the hardness of winter.
7. Cruelty of temper; savageness; harshness.
The blame
May hang upon your hardness
8. Stiffness; harshness; roughness; as the hardnesses of sculpture.
9. Closeness; niggardliness; stinginess.
10. Hardship; severe labor, trials or sufferings.
Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 2:3.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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