noun · feminine
kataras
Strong’sG2671
a curse, cursing
stem katar-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
κατ-άρα, -ας, -ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for קְלָלָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2671 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect κατ-άρη, ἡ, curse, κατάρας ποιέεσθαί τινι to lay curses upon one, NT+5th c.BC+; τὴν κ. ἀναγράψαι, στηλιτεῦσαι, Refs 1st c.BC+ 2.354b; cursing, Refs 1st c.BC+ O.
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.
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 | kataras2×κατάρα | katarais |
| object accusative | kataran1×κατάραν | katarain |
| direct address vocative | katarar | katarair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katarau3×κατάρας | kataraiu |
| to, for dative | katara | katarai |
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
katara 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
kataras“curse”subjectnominative singular2×
Galatians 3:13… katarau tou nomou generantos huper nu kataras, hoti grafotē; Epikataratos pantos tos kremannuerantos …… of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written …
James 3:10… teu auteu stomeu exerchotō eulogias kai kataras. ouk chrēatō, adelfoir mu, houteim houtōs …… the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!
kataran“curse”objectaccusative singular1×
Galatians 3:10… gar ek ergeiu nomou alō hupo kataran alō, grafotē gar hoti Epikataratos pantos …… of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is …
katarau“curse”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Galatians 3:13Christos nin exagorazata ek tau katarau tou nomou generantos huper nu kataras, …Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a …
Hebrews 6:8“cursed”… de akanthain kai triboloin adokimas kai katarau engus, hau tem telem eis kausian.But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
2 Peter 2:14… psuchain astēriktain, kardian gumnazorēntan pleonexiau echarōntois, katarau tekneim,… they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.