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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, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself 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, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey 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, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 - “Behold, I set 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 obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 - “Now it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put 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 the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command 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 - “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD 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 - ‘Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God drives you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, 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 - And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - “It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction,[fn] and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And see, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, 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 tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they had not met the children 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 - (Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for a curse on his soul);

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 - As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 - The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked,
But He blesses the home of the just.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They shall not labor in vain,
Nor bring forth children for trouble;
For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD,
And their offspring with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - ‘I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive 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 will make this city 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 shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “The LORD make you like Zedekiah and 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 - ‘in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse 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 the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - And it shall come to pass
That just as you were a curse among the nations,
O house of Judah and house of Israel,
So I will save you, and you shall be 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 will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them already,
Because you do not take it to heart.
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