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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.
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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 BoxGen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill-intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - And his mother said to him, On me be thy curse, son; only hearken to my voice, and go and bring them me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - And Balac said to Balaam, Neither curse [fn]the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 - Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which ye know not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 - And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land into which thou goest over to inherit it, then thou shalt put blessing on mount Garizin, and the curse upon mount Gæbal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - (LXX 23:6) But the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord thy God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - And these shall stand for cursing on mount Gæbal; Ruben, Gad, and Aser, Zabulon, Dan, and Nephthali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe all his commandments, as many as I charge thee this day, then all these curses shall come on thee, and overtake thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and shall overtake thee, until he shall have consumed thee, and until he shall have destroyed thee; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - (LXX 29:26) And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thy face, and thou shalt [fn]call them to mind among all the nations, wherein the Lord shall have scattered thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - (LXX 9:2e) And afterwards Joshua read accordingly all the words of this law, the blessings and the curses, according to all things written in the law of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - And all the wickedness of the men of Sychem God requited upon their head; and the curse of Joatham the son of Jerobaal came upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - And, behold, there is with thee Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the [fn]camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because thy heart was softened, and thou wast humbled before me, when thou heardest all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be [fn]utterly destroyed and accursed, and thou didst rend thy garments, and weep before me; I also have heard, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a by-word among my people in my affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 - (LXX 108:17) He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - (LXX 108:18) Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 - The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly; but the habitations of the just are blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - (LXX 64:9) The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - (LXX 33:6) then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - (LXX 36:22) And they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Juda in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to thee as he did to Sedekias, and as he did to Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - (LXX 51:8) by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - (LXX 51:12) to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - Moreover all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have refused to hearken to thy voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - And it shall come to pass, as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Juda, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: be of good courage, and strengthen your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because ye lay not this to heart.
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