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Lexicon :: Strong's G685 - ara

Aa
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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All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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 - then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 - Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 -
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 -
They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 -
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
Let them even be taken in their pride,
And for cursing and lying which they speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 -
A prudent man concealeth knowledge;
But the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 -
As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying,
So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - And he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it.
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