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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 Box Gen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - My father may touch me! Then he'll think I'm mocking him and I'll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - 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 - Take note - 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 pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 - When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce 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 - But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the LORD your God loves you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - And these other tribes must stand for the curse 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 if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - That is why the LORD's anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - "When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - Perhaps the LORD will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - "Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised him by the LORD, 'I will not strike you down with the sword.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - 'You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,' says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse -

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 - He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 - The LORD's curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the LORD will bless their children and their descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - And all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use them as examples when they put a curse on anyone. They will say, "May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted to death in the fire!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - "All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - And it will come about that just as you (both Judah and Israel) were a curse to the nations, so I will save you and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid! Instead, be strong!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name," says the LORD who rules over all, "I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses - indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.
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