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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)
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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 shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 - Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall 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 shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are 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 thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 - For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 - A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 - As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
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