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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, (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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - “Perhaps my father will touch me, then I will be like a [fn]deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get the goats for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, [fn]by following other gods which you have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 -

“And it shall come about, when the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - “Nevertheless, the LORD your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God loves you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - “For the curse, these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 -

“But it shall come about, if you do not [fn]obey the LORD your God, to be careful to [fn]follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 -

“So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not [fn]obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - ‘Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 -

“So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you [fn]call them to mind in all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your [fn]descendants,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to everything that is written in the Book of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - God also returned all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came [fn]upon them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - “Perhaps the LORD will look on my [fn]misery and [fn]return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjaminite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a painful curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - since 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 an object of horror and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have indeed heard you,’ declares the LORD.”
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 -

[fn]No, I have not [fn]allowed my mouth to sin

By asking for his life in a curse.

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 -

But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,

And it entered [fn]his body like water,

And like oil into his bones.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 -

The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked,

But He blesses the home of the righteous.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 -

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 -

“They will not labor in vain,

Or give birth to children for disaster;

For they are the [fn]descendants of those blessed by the LORD,

And their descendants with them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - ‘I will make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all the places where I will scatter them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - “Because of them a curse will be [fn]used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning [fn]sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you are entering to reside, so that you may be eliminated and become a curse and a disgrace among all the nations of the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their [fn]minds on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword or meet their end by famine. From the small to the great, they will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, [fn]an imprecation, and a disgrace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Indeed, all Israel has violated Your Law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has gushed forth on us, along with the oath which is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - ‘And it will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, 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.’
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - “If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the LORD of armies, “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 taking it to heart.
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