aras

Strong’sG685

a prayer or prayer for evil, a curse, imprecation

stem ar-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀρά, -ᾶς, ἡ,

[in LXX chiefly for אלה];

1. a prayer (MM, s.v.).

2. (as in Homer) a curse, malediction: Ro 3:14(LXX).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G685 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-ah'

properly, prayer (as lifted to Heaven), i.e. (by implication) imprecation

Fromprobably from G142;

King Jamescurse.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀρά,
Ionic dialect ἀρή, ἡ, prayer, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀρὴν ἐποιήσαντο παῖδα γενέσθαι Ἀρίστωνι offered prayers that a child should be born, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 vow, Refs
3 curse, imprecation, ἐξ ἀρέων μητρὸς.. ἥ ῥα θεοῖσι πόλλ᾽ ἀχέουσ᾽ ἠρᾶτοRefs 8th c.BC+; frequently in Trag., mostly in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀρὰς ἀρᾶσθαι,προστιθέναι, ἐξανιέναι, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in singular, πατρὸς δ᾽ ἀ. κρανθήσεταιRefs 5th c.BC+, etc.: in plural, imprecations, frequently in Inscrr. on those who shall mutilate or remove them, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II Ἀρά personified as the goddess of destruction and revenge, ὦ πότνι᾽ Ἀρὰ σεμναί τε θεῶν παῖδες ἘρινύεςRefs 5th c.BC+ is their own name γῆς ὑπα; Ἀρά τ᾽ Ἐρινὺς πατρὸς ἡ μεγασθενήςRefs 5th c.BC+ [Epic dialect always ᾱρ, Attic dialect always ᾰρ.] (From ἀρϝᾱ, compare κάταρ ϝος.)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

cursing1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	aras	arais
object accusative	aran	arain
direct address vocative	arar	arair
of, belonging to genitive	arau1×ἀρᾶς	araiu
to, for dative	ara	arai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

arstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ara is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

ara — ἄρα, then, therefore, since ara — ἆρα, a particle asking a question, expecting a negative response

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

arau“cursing”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Romans 3:14hoiu tem stomem arau kai pikriau gematō;“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”