Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
curse
Usage: κατ-άρα, -ας, -ἡ [in LXX chiefly for קְלָלָה ;] a curse: Gal.3:10, 13 Heb.6:8, 2Pe.2:14; opposite to εὐλογία, Jas.3:10; concrete, of Christ, Gal.3:13 (see Lft. in l).† (AS)
Katara means “imprecation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2671 — chets (“arrow”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2671 κατάρα (katara) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katara (kat-ar'-ah) n. 1. a cursing (the act of) 2. a curse It has 45 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include cursed and cursing. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
katara (kat-ar'-ah) n. 1. a cursing (the act of) 2. a curse [from G2596 (intensive) and G685] KJV: curse(-d, ing) Root(s): G2596, G685
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curse
Usage: κατ-άρα, -ας, -ἡ [in LXX chiefly for קְלָלָה ;] a curse: Gal.3:10, 13 Heb.6:8, 2Pe.2:14; opposite to εὐλογία, Jas.3:10; concrete, of Christ, Gal.3:13 (see Lft. in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katara, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2671 (κατάρα) appears 41 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
32 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.
And his mother said to him, On me be thy curse, son; only hearken to my voice, and go and bring them me.
And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; But the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.
She shall leave her memory to be cursed, And her reproach shall not be blotted out.
If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, And he will count as if he had found it: If not, he hath deprived him of his money, And he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: He payeth him with cursings and railings; And for honor he will pay him disgrace.
3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
Yea and like water your lies shall flow away; For your riches shall not abide But speedily ascend from you; For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness, And ye shall be given over to a great curse.
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2671.
Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.
And his mother said to him, On me be thy curse, son; only hearken to my voice, and go and bring them me.
And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.
Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse;
and the curse, if ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which ye know not.
And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land into which thou goest over to inherit it, then thou shalt put blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.
But the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord thy God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord thy God loved thee.
And these shall stand for cursing on Mount Ebal; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe all his commandments, as many as I charge thee this day, then all these curses shall come on thee, and overtake thee.
And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and shall overtake thee, until he shall have consumed thee, and until he shall have destroyed thee; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded thee.
and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign them to them.
And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thy face, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, wherein the Lord shall have scattered thee,
I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;
And all the wickedness of the men of Shechem God requited upon their head; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day.
And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjaminite of Bahurim: and he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
because thy heart was softened, and thou wast humbled before me, when thou heardest all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and thou didst rend thy garments, and weep before me; I also have heard, saith the Lord.
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Let then mine ear hear my curse, And let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.
He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; And he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him.
Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, And it is come as water into his bowels, And as oil into his bones.
But the habitations of the just are blessed.
The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.
And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.
then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.
And they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Judah in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to thee as he did to Zedekiah, and as he did to Ahab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;
by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.
Moreover all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have refused to hearken to thy voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
And it shall come to pass, 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: be of good courage, and strengthen your hands.
If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because ye lay not this to heart.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; But the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.
She shall leave her memory to be cursed, And her reproach shall not be blotted out.
If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, And he will count as if he had found it: If not, he hath deprived him of his money, And he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: He payeth him with cursings and railings; And for honor he will pay him disgrace.
And if ye be born, ye shall be born to a curse: And if ye die, a curse shall be your portion.
All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again: So the ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction.
But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
Yea and like water your lies shall flow away; For your riches shall not abide But speedily ascend from you; For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness, And ye shall be given over to a great curse.
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2671, grouped by book.
Katara (Strong's G2671) is a Greek word most simply glossed "imprecation". katara (kat-ar'-ah) n. 1. a cursing (the act of) 2. a curse
This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G2671 across 22 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2671 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cursed and cursing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 32 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2671, with linked reader references where each row is available.