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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G4641
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
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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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