Chalepos describes harsh conditions or persons, including future times and men who made a road impassable.

The attested use describes severity applied both to times and to people: 2 Timothy 3:1 speaks of harsh times, while Matthew 8:28 describes men whose presence kept others from passing along the road.

1. Severity in circumstances or persons · dominant

   In 2 Timothy 3:1, the nominative plural masculine form occurs in the clause about times that will be present in the last days; the APB renders the clause "harsh times." In Matthew 8:28, the same morphology characterizes the two demon-possessed men coming from the graves, with the APB rendering them "exceedingly harsh" and describing how no one could pass along that road.

   2 Timothy 3:1Matthew 8:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with "harsh" in both verses, intensifying it as "exceedingly harsh" in Matthew 8:28. These renderings confirm the clauses' presentation rather than establish separate meanings.