Poroo means “blind” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4456 — malqosh (“latter rain”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4456 πωρόω (poroo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. poroo (po-roh'-o) v. 1. to petrify 2. (figuratively) to indurate (render stupid or callous) It has 6 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include blinded and hardened. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
poroo (po-roh'-o) v. 1. to petrify 2. (figuratively) to indurate (render stupid or callous) [apparently from poros "a kind of stone"] KJV: blind, harden
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4456. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to harden
Usage: πωρόω, -ῶ (πῶρος, 1. a stone. 2. a callus) [in LXX: Job.17:7 B(כָּהָה), Pro.10:20 A * ;] to petrify, harden, form a callus. Metaphorical, π. τ. καρδίαν, Jhn.12:40. Pass., Rom.11:7; τ. νοήματα, 2Co.3:14; ἡ καρδία, Mrk.6:52 8:17 † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render poroo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4456 (πωρόω) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4456.
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4456, grouped by book.
Poroo (Strong's G4456) is a Greek word most simply glossed "blind". poroo (po-roh'-o) v. 1. to petrify 2. (figuratively) to indurate (render stupid or callous)
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G4456 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4456 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as blinded and hardened. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G4456, with linked reader references where each row is available.