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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 relatives. Now if they do 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 - Then they said, “We see plainly that Yahweh has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us—between [fn]you and us—and let us cut a covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 -

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall [fn]wash them off into the water of bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - that you may enter into the covenant with Yahweh your God and into His oath, which Yahweh your God is cutting with you today,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 -

“Now not with you alone am I cutting this covenant and this oath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - “And it will be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will [fn]bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order [fn]to sweep away the watered land with the dry.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - “Yahweh shall not be willing to pardon him, but rather the anger of Yahweh and His jealousy will [fn]burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will [fn]rest on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - “Then Yahweh will separate him out for [fn]adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - “And Yahweh your God will [fn]inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, 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 he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 -

“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - are [fn]joining with their [fn]relatives, their nobles, and are entering into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by the hand of Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and His judgments and His statutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 -

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His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;

Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 -

They have all turned aside, altogether they have become [fn]worthless;

There is no one who does good, not even one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 -

[fn]On account of the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips,

Let them even be caught in their pride,

And on account of curses and [fn]lies which 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 [fn]flitting, like a swallow in flying,

So a curse without cause does not come to pass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who inhabit it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men remain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 -

For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 -

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - “So Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have done; thus your land has become a waste place, an object of horror, and an imprecation, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - ‘He took one of the royal seed and cut a covenant with him and brought him under oath. He also took away the dominant one of the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - ‘As I live,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘Surely in the [fn]country of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, [fn]in Babylon he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 -

There is swearing of oaths, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery.

They break forth in violence so that bloodshed [fn]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 is going forth over the face of the whole [fn]land; surely everyone who steals will be [fn]purged away according to [fn]the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be [fn]purged away according to the writing on the other side.
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