Sklerokardia means “hardness of heart” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4641 — maaseyah (“Maaseiah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4641 σκληροκαρδία (sklerokardia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sklerokardia (sklay-rok-ar-dee'-ah) n. 1. hard-heartedness 2. (specially), destitution of (spiritual) perception It has 6 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include hardness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sklerokardia (sklay-rok-ar-dee'-ah) n. 1. hard-heartedness 2. (specially), destitution of (spiritual) perception [feminine of a compound of G4642 and G2588] KJV: hardness of heart Root(s): G4642, G2588
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4641. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
hardness of heart
Usage: σκληρο-καρδία, -ας, ἡ (σκληρός, καρδία), [in LXX: Deu.10:16, Jer.4:4 (לֵבָב עׇרְלָה), Sir.16:10 (cf. καρδία σκληρά, Sir.3:26-27) * ;] hardness of heart: Mat.19:8, Mrk.10:5 16:14.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sklerokardia, 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, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G4641 (σκληροκαρδία) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
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.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.
Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, Who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4641.
Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.
Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.
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.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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.
Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, Who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4641, grouped by book.
Sklerokardia (Strong's G4641) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hardness of heart". sklerokardia (sklay-rok-ar-dee'-ah) n. 1. hard-heartedness 2. (specially), destitution of (spiritual) perception
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G4641 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4641 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hardness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4641, with linked reader references where each row is available.