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Lexicon :: Strong's G2671 - katara

Aa
κατάρα
Transliteration
katara (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ar'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From κατά (G2596) (intensive) and ἀρά (G685)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:449,75

Strong’s Definitions

κατάρα katára, kat-ar'-ah; from G2596 (intensive) and G685; imprecation, execration:—curse(-d, ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2671 in the following manner: curse (3x), cursing (2x), cursed (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2671 in the following manner: curse (3x), cursing (2x), cursed (1x).

  1. an execration, imprecation, curse

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κατάρα katára, kat-ar'-ah; from G2596 (intensive) and G685; imprecation, execration:—curse(-d, ing).
STRONGS G2671:
κατάρα, κατάρας, ἡ (κατά and ἄρα, cf. German Verfiuchung,Verwünschung (cf. κατά, III. 4)); the Sept. chiefly for כְּלָלָה; an execration, imprecation, curse: opposed to εὐλογία to being cursed (which see), James 3:10; γῆ κατάρας ἐγγύς, near by God, i. e. to being given up to barrenness (the allusion is to Genesis 3:17f), Hebrews 6:8; ὑπό κατάραν εἶναι, to be under a curse, i. e. liable to the appointed penalty of being cursed, Galatians 3:10; ἐξαγοράζειν τινα ἐκ τῆς κατάρας, to redeem one exposed to the threatened penalty of a curse, Galatians 3:13; τέκνα κατάρας, men worthy of execration, 2 Peter 2:14; abstract for the concrete, one in whom the curse is exhibited, i. e. undergoing the appointed penalty of cursing, Galatians 3:13; ἐγώ κατάρα ἐγενήθην, Protevangelium Jacobi,
c. 3. (Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, others.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
3:17
Galatians
3:10; 3:13; 3:13
Hebrews
6:8
James
3:10
2 Peter
2:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2671 matches the Greek κατάρα (katara),
which occurs 33 times in 33 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 - Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 - And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - And these shall stand upon mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I sware to him by Jehovah, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 -
(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin
By asking his life with a curse);

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 -
Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 -
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
And it came into his inward parts like water,
And like oil into his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 -
The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked;
But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - And it shall come to pass that, as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
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