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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 - You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - They replied, "We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us - between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse and will say to the her, "The LORD make you an attested curse among your people, if the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - "'Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness - her abdomen will swell, 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 - so that you may enter by oath into the covenant 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 covenant by oath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - "When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - "When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 - They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 - The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people publicize folly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 - Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit; no place is untouched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. You will never see this place again.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - He took one from the royal family, made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. He then took the leaders of the land

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - "'As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke - in the middle of Babylon he will die!

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - The speaker went on to say, "This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate."
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