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Lexicon :: Strong's G2671 - katara

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κατάρα
Transliteration
katara (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ar'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From κατά (G2596) (intensive) and ἀρά (G685)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:449,75

Strong’s Definitions

κατάρα katára, kat-ar'-ah; from G2596 (intensive) and G685; imprecation, execration:—curse(-d, ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2671 in the following manner: curse (3x), cursing (2x), cursed (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2671 in the following manner: curse (3x), cursing (2x), cursed (1x).

  1. an execration, imprecation, curse

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κατάρα katára, kat-ar'-ah; from G2596 (intensive) and G685; imprecation, execration:—curse(-d, ing).
STRONGS G2671:
κατάρα, 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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
3:17
Galatians
3:10; 3:13; 3:13
Hebrews
6:8
James
3:10
2 Peter
2:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2671 matches the Greek κατάρα (katara),
which occurs 33 times in 33 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - “Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a mocker in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 -

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 -

“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by walking after other gods which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:29

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“And it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - “Nevertheless, Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because Yahweh your God loves you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - “For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 -

“But it will be, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep and to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 -

“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - ‘Therefore, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:1

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“So it will be, when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you cause these things to return to your heart in all the nations where Yahweh your God has banished you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your seed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - God also returned all the evil of the men of Shechem on their own heads, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came [fn]upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - “Perhaps Yahweh will look on my affliction and [fn]return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a [fn]violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become an object of horror, and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 -

“But I have not given over my [fn]mouth to sin

By asking for his life in a curse—

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 -

He also loved cursing, so it came to him;

And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 -

But he clothed himself with cursing as his garment,

And it came into his inward parts like water

And like oil into his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 -

The curse of Yahweh is on the house of the wicked one,

But He blesses the abode of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 -

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:23

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“They will not labor in vain,

Or bear children for terror;

For they are the seed of those blessed by Yahweh,

And their offspring with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - ‘I will give them over to be a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a byword and a curse in all places where I will banish them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - ‘And because of them a curse will be [fn]used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to sojourn, so that you might be cut off and become an imprecation and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their face on entering the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and [fn]meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Indeed all Israel has trespassed against Your law, even turning aside, not listening to Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the [fn]law of Moses the [fn]servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - ‘And it will be that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - “If you do not listen, and if you do not set it upon your heart to give [fn]honor to My name,” says Yahweh of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already because you are not setting it upon your heart.
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