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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 - What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get 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 BoxDeu 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 - See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 - When the LORD your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - It may be that the LORD will look upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse today.”

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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 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse[fn] and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the 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 BoxJob 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 - He loved to pronounce a curse— may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing— may it be far from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse[fn] and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse[fn] among all the nations of the earth.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse[fn] and an object of reproach among all the nations on earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - Just as you, Judah and Israel, have been a curse[fn] among the nations, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.[fn] Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.”

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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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