G4642–σκληρός–sklēros

And he also that had received the one talent coming to [supplied: him] said, [supplied: My] lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering from where thou hadst not scattered,

σκληρὸς sklēros “hard”

Many therefore of his disciples having heard [supplied: it] said, This word is hard; who can hear it?

σκληρός sklēros “Difficult”

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [supplied: said], *I* am Jesus, whom *thou* persecutest.

σκληρόν sklēron “hard”

And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [supplied: it is] hard for thee to kick against goads.

σκληρόν sklēron “[It is] hard”

Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.

σκληρῶν sklērōn “strong”

to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [supplied: things] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

σκληρῶν sklērōn “harsh [things]”