from skello, “to dry,” signifies “trying, exacting:” See AUSTERE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
primarily means “hard to satisfy with food” (dus, a prefix like Eng., un, or mis, indicating “difficulty, opposition, injuriousness,” ect., the opposite of, eu, “well,” and kolon, “food”); hence, “difficult,” Mar 10:24<\/span>, of the “difficulty,” for those who trust in riches, to enter into the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 1, is rendered “hardness” in Rom 2:5<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “a hardening,” a covering with a poros, a kind of stone, indicating “a process” (from poroo, C, No. 1), and is used metaphorically of dulled spiritual perception, Mar 3:5<\/span>, RV, “at the hardening of their hearts;” Rom 11:25<\/span>, RV, “a hardening” (AV, “blindness”), said of the state of Israel; Eph 4:18<\/span>, RV, “hardening,” of the heart of Gentiles. See BLINDNESS. <\/p>\n Note: See also under HARDSHIP and HEART (hardness of). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to make hard, callous, to petrify” (akin to B, No. 2), is used metaphorically, of the heart, Mar 6:52<\/span>; Mar 8:17<\/span>; Joh 12:40<\/span>; of the mind (or thoughts), 2Co 3:14<\/span>, of those in Israel who refused the revealed will and ways of God in the Gospel, as also in Rom 11:7<\/span>, RV, “hardened” (AV, “blinded”), in both places. See BLINDNESS. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to make dry or hard” (akin to A, No. 1 and B, No. 1), is used in Act 19:9<\/span>; in Rom 9:18<\/span>, illustrated by the case of Pharaoh, who first persistently “hardened” his heart (see the RV marg. of Exo 7:13<\/span>, Exo 7:22<\/span>; Exo 8:19<\/span>; text of Exo 8:32<\/span>; Exo 9:7<\/span>), all producing the retributive “hardening” by God, after His much long-suffering, Exo 9:12<\/span>, etc., in Heb 3:8<\/span>, Heb 3:13<\/span>, Heb 3:15<\/span>; Heb 4:7<\/span>, warnings against the “hardening” of the heart. <\/p>\n Hard, Harden, Hardening, Hardness from skello, “to dry,” signifies “trying, exacting:” See AUSTERE. primarily means “hard to satisfy with food” (dus, a prefix like Eng., un, or mis, indicating “difficulty, opposition, injuriousness,” ect., the opposite of, eu, “well,” and kolon, “food”); hence, “difficult,” Mar 10:24, of the “difficulty,” for those who trust in riches, to … Continue reading “Hard, Harden, Hardening, Hardness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"