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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 BoxGen 24:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you—then you will be released from my oath.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the LORD cause you to become a curse[fn] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - “ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 - I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 - For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 - The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves, but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 - Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a spot without filth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse[fn] and an object of horror, a curse[fn] and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty with him, putting him under oath. He also carried away the leading men of the land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - “ ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, he shall die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - There is only cursing,[fn] lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
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