Hardening
πώρωσιςStrong’s G4457pōrōsis
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pōrōsis is the Greek word usually translated “hardness” and “hardening”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
Usually translated “hardness” and “hardening”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- hardness 2
- a hardening 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Mark 1
- Romans 1
- Ephesians 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Romans 11:25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- Ephesians 4:18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Greek dictionary
πώρωσις pōrōsis · hardening
πώρωσις, -εως, ἡ (πωρόω), a covering with a callus, a hardening: metaphorically, Mrk.3:6, Rom.11:2, Eph.4:18.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hardening” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
H'ARDENING, participle present
tense Making hard or more compact; making obdurate or unfeeling; confirming; becoming more hard.
All definitions and other forms of “hardening”
H'ARDENING, noun
The giving a greater degree of hardness to bodies than they had before.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.