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Lexicon :: Strong's H779 - 'ārar

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אָרַר
Transliteration
'ārar
Pronunciation
aw-rar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 168

Strong’s Definitions

אָרַר ʼârar, aw-rar'; a primitive root; to execrate:—× bitterly curse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x

The KJV translates Strong's H779 in the following manner: curse (62x), bitterly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x
The KJV translates Strong's H779 in the following manner: curse (62x), bitterly (1x).

  1. to curse

    1. (Qal)

      1. to curse

      2. cursed be he (participle used as in curses)

    2. (Niphal) to be cursed, cursed

    3. (Piel) to curse, lay under a curse, put a curse on

    4. (Hophal) to be made a curse, be cursed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָרַר ʼârar, aw-rar'; a primitive root; to execrate:—× bitterly curse.
STRONGS H779: Abbreviations
[אָרַר] verb curse (Assyrian arâru ZimBP 68; on relation of meanings bind & curse in Assyrian see DlPr 101) —
Qal Perfect וְאָרוֺתִ֫י, אָרוֺתִיהָ Malachi 2:2; Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular תָּאֹר Exodus 22:27; Numbers 22:6, 12; אָאֹר Genesis 12:3; Imperative אָ֫רָהֿ Numbers 22:6; Numbers 23:7; אוֺרוּ, אֹרוּ & Infinitive absolute אָרוֺר all Judges 5:23; Participle אֹרֲרֵי Job 3:8; אֹרֲרֶיךָ Genesis 27:29; Numbers 24:9; אָרוּר Genesis 3:14 + 36 times etc.; — curse || בֵּרֵךְ bless, chiefly in poetic & legal sources of J E D & later imitations: Genesis 12:3; Genesis 27:29 (J) Numbers 22:6, 12; Numbers 23:7; Numbers 24:9 (E) Exodus 22:27 (E) Malachi 2:2; אֹרוּ אָרוֺר ישְׁבֶיהָ = curse for ever her inhabitants Judges 5:23; אֹרֲרֵי יוֺם cursers of the day (magicians whose imprecations made days unlucky) Job 3:8. Passive participle אָרוּר, chiefly as exclamation, || בָּרוּךְ Genesis 3:14, 17; Genesis 4:11; Genesis 9:25; Genesis 27:29; Genesis 49:7; Numbers 22:12; Numbers 24:9 (E, poetry) Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Judges 21:18; 1 Samuel 14:24; 1 Samuel 14:28; 1 Samuel 26:29; Jeremiah 11:3; Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 20:14, 15; Jeremiah 48:10 (twice in verse); Malachi 1:14; אֲרוּרִים הַשֹּׁגִים מִמִּצְוֺתֶיךָ cursed be those who wander from thy commands Psalm 119:21 (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Jerome De Ri), הָאֲרוּרָה הַזּאֹת this cursed woman 2 Kings 9:34.
Niph. Participle נֵאָרִים cursed Malachi 3:9.
Pi. 3rd person masculine singular suffix אֵרֲרָהּ curse, lay under a curse Genesis 5:29 (J); Participle הַמַּיִם הַמְאָרֲרִים the curse-bringing waters Numbers 5:18-27 (P + 6 times waters destroying the perjured adulteress drinking them).
Hoph. Imperfect יוּאָ֑ר be cursed Numbers 22:6 (E).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:14; 3:14; 3:17; 4:11; 5:29; 9:25; 12:3; 12:3; 27:29; 27:29; 27:29; 49:7

Exodus

22:27; 22:27

Numbers

5:18; 5:19; 5:20; 5:21; 5:22; 5:23; 5:24; 5:25; 5:26; 5:27; 22:6; 22:6; 22:6; 22:6; 22:12; 22:12; 22:12; 23:7; 23:7; 24:9; 24:9; 24:9

Deuteronomy

27:15; 27:16; 27:17; 27:18; 27:19; 27:20; 27:21; 27:22; 27:23; 27:24; 27:25; 27:26

Judges

5:23; 5:23; 21:18

1 Samuel

14:24; 14:28

2 Kings

9:34

Job

3:8; 3:8

Psalms

119:21

Jeremiah

11:3; 17:5; 20:14; 20:15; 48:10

Malachi

1:14; 2:2; 2:2; 3:9

H779

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Strong's Number H779 matches the Hebrew אָרַר ('ārar),
which occurs 63 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 3:14–Mal 1:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - and he named him Noach, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - He said, "Cursed be Kana`an; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the eretz be blessed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Ya`akov, Scatter them in Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:28 - "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - The Kohen shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The Kohen shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - The Kohen shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amein, Amein.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:12 - God said to Bil`am, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Mo'av from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Ya`akov, Come, defy Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:9 - He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:16 - Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17 - Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:18 - Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - Cursed be he who wrests the justice due to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:20 - Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21 - Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23 - Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:24 - Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:25 - Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:26 - Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:16 - Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:17 - Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:19 - Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - Yehoshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that rises up and builds this city Yericho: with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:23 - Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - Curse you Meroz, said the angel of the LORD. Curse you bitterly the inhabitants of it, Because they didn't come to the help of the LORD, To the help of the LORD against the mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Yisra'el had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Binyamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24 - The men of Yisra'el were distressed that day; for Sha'ul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be the LORD that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to the LORD's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34 - When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:8 - Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up livyatan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:21 - You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, Who wander from your mitzvot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3 - and say you to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:5 - Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14 - Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:15 - Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:10 - Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:14 - "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says the LORD of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."

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