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Lexicon :: Strong's G2672 - kataraomai

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καταράομαι
Transliteration
kataraomai (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ar-ah'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice from κατάρα (G2671)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:448,75

Strong’s Definitions

καταράομαι kataráomai, kat-ar-ah'-om-ahee; middle voice from G2671; to execrate; by analogy, to doom:—curse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2672 in the following manner: curse (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2672 in the following manner: curse (6x).

  1. to curse, doom, imprecate evil upon

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταράομαι kataráomai, kat-ar-ah'-om-ahee; middle voice from G2671; to execrate; by analogy, to doom:—curse.
STRONGS G2672:
καταράομαι, καταρωμαι; (deponent middle from κατάρα); 1 aorist 2 pers singular κατηράσω; (perfect passive participle κατηραμένος (see below)); from Homer down; the Sept. mostly for קִלֵּל and אָרַר; to curse, doom, imprecate evil on: (opposed to εὐλογεῖν) absolutely, Romans 12:14; with the dative of the object (as in the earlier Greek writings), Luke 6:28 Rec. (Baruch 6 (Epistle Jer. Epistle of Jeremiah 1:65) Baruch 6:66; (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 22, 16)); with the accusative of the object (as often in the later Greek writings, as Plutarch, Cat. min. 32, 1 variant (Buttmann, § 133, 9; Winer's Grammar, 222 (208))), Matthew 5:44 Rec.; Luke 6:28 G L text T Tr WH; James 3:9; a tree, i. e. to wither it by cursing, Mark 11:21 (see Hebrews 6:8 in κατάρα). perfect passive participle κατηραμένος in a passive sense, accursed (Wis. 12:11; (2 Kings 9:34); Plutarch, Luc. 18; and κεκατηραμ. Deuteronomy 21:23; (Sir. 3:16)): Matthew 25:41 (also occasionally κεκαταρανται, Numbers 22:6; Numbers 24:9; (but Tdf. etc. κεκατήρανται; see Veitch, under the word.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
22:6; 24:9
Deuteronomy
21:23
2 Kings
9:34
Matthew
5:44; 25:41
Mark
11:21
Luke
6:28; 6:28; 18
Romans
12:14
Hebrews
6:8
James
3:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2672 matches the Greek καταράομαι (kataraomai),
which occurs 56 times in 47 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - He named him Noah[fn] and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:11 - The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:14 - “Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:15 - Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:12 - But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:8 - How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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 BoxNum 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:9 - Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse them? “May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim[fn] to pronounce a curse on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the LORD. ‘Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden them, they held a festival in the temple of their god. While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43 - He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:5 - As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as Saul’s family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he cursed as he came out.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:7 - As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9 - Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why do you do this?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - David then said to Abishai and all his officials, “My son, my own flesh and blood, is trying to kill me. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21 - Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the LORD’s anointed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34 - Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:25 - I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:2 - He said:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:8 - May those who curse days[fn] curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:18 - “Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:22 - those the LORD blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:4 - Surely they intend to topple me from my lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:28 - While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:10 - “Do not slander a servant to their master, or they will curse you, and you will pay for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:11 - “There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 - Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.
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