Lexicon katara: a curse Original Word: κατάρα, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: katara Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ar'-ah) Short Definition: a curse, cursing Definition: cursing; a curse; meton: a doomed one. HELPS word-Studies 2671 katára (from 2596 /katá, "according to, down" and 685 /ará, "a curse") – properly, what has "to go down" (penalties received) due to condemnation, i.e. the penalty-curse that results when God Himself curses (condemns) something. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kata and araDefinitiona curse NASB Translationaccursed (1), curse (3), cursed (1), cursing (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2671: κατάρακατάρα, κατάρας, ἡ ( κατά and ἄρα, cf. German Verfiuchung, Verwünschung (cf. κατά, III. 4)); the Sept. chiefly for כְּלָלָה; an execration, imprecation, curse: opposed to εὐλογία to being cursed (which see), James 3:10; γῆ κατάρας ἐγγύς, near by God, i. e. to being given up to barrenness (the allusion is to Genesis 3:17f), Hebrews 6:8; ὑπό κατάραν εἶναι, to be under a curse, i. e. liable to the appointed penalty of being cursed, Galatians 3:10; ἐξαγοράζειν τινα ἐκ τῆς κατάρας, to redeem one exposed to the threatened penalty of a curse, Galatians 3:13; τέκνα κατάρας, men worthy of execration, 2 Peter 2:14; abstract for the concrete, one in whom the curse is exhibited, i. e. undergoing the appointed penalty of cursing, Galatians 3:13; ἐγώ κατάρα ἐγενήθην, Protevangelium Jacobi, c. 3. (Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, others.)
Strong's curse From kata (intensive) and ara; imprecation, execration -- curse(-d, ing). see GREEK kata see GREEK ara |
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