What does σκληροκαρδία (sklērokardía) mean in the Bible?
σκληροκαρδία (sklērokardía): Spiritual obstinacy resistant to God's will; used of deliberate refusal to receive divine instruction
Greek · G4641
σκληροκαρδία
Hardness of heart
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σκληροκαρδία G4641
Pronunciation sklērokardía
What does σκληροκαρδία (sklērokardía) mean in the Bible?
σκληροκαρδία (sklērokardía): Spiritual obstinacy resistant to God's will; used of deliberate refusal to receive divine instruction
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4641?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include hardness of heart (3).
Where does σκληροκαρδία (sklērokardía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 19:8. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (2), Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It hardness of heart 3× Matthew 19:8, Mark 10:5, Mark 16:14
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 19:8
Aligned rows 3
Books represented 2
Matthew 1 Mark 2
Source forms
σκληροκαρδίαν 3x sklērokardian Matthew 19:8, Mark 10:5, Mark 16:14
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 3x Matthew 19:8, Mark 10:5, Mark 16:14
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Spiritual obstinacy resistant to God's will; used of deliberate refusal to receive divine instruction
Strong's G4641
Lexical occurrences 3 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 1 form 3 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Mark 10:1–12 Source Gloss
hardness of heart
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Spiritual obstinacy resistant to God's will; used of deliberate refusal to receive divine instruction
(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.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 19:8 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
σκληροκαρδίαν sklhrokardian
hardness of heart
Read verse Mark 10:5 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
σκληροκαρδίαν sklhrokardian
hardness of heart
Read verse Mark 16:14 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
σκληροκαρδίαν, sklhrokardian
hardness of heart
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 3 Case pattern Accusative (3) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Matt 19:8 · Mark 10:5 · Mark 16:14 3×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
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Additional Occurrences
Mark 10:1–12 σκληροκαρδία sklērokardía
hardness of heart, stubbornness
New Testament Witnesses
hardness of heart
Showing 2 selected witnesses from 3 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
σκληροκαρδία is built from these roots:
Why This Word Matters
Explains why divorce was permitted.
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain