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Lexicon :: Strong's G685 - ara

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ἀρά
Transliteration
ara (Key)
Pronunciation
ar-ah'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from αἴρω (G142)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
28x in 8 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: 1:448,75

Strong’s Definitions

ἀρά ará, ar-ah'; probably from G142; properly, prayer (as lifted to Heaven), i.e. (by implication) imprecation:—curse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G685 in the following manner: cursing (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G685 in the following manner: cursing (1x).

  1. a prayer, a supplication

  2. an imprecation, curse, malediction

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀρά ará, ar-ah'; probably from G142; properly, prayer (as lifted to Heaven), i.e. (by implication) imprecation:—curse.
STRONGS G685:
ἄρά, -ᾶς, ἡ,
1. a prayer; a supplication; much more often
2. an imprecation, curse, malediction (cf. κατάρα); so in Romans 3:14 (cf. Psalm 9:28 (Ps. 10:7)), and often in the Sept. (In both senses in native Greek writings from Homer down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
10:7
Romans
3:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G685 matches the Greek ἀρά (ara),
which occurs 28 times in 27 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - They said, “We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - “Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 - It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - And the LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 - For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 - A prudent man conceals knowledge,
but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 - Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
a curse that is causeless does not alight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - And he took one of the royal offspring[fn] and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (the chief men of the land he had taken away),

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely[fn] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
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