Anathematizo means “bind with an oath” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H332 — atar (“shut”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G332 ἀναθεματίζω (anathematizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anathematizo (an-ath-em-at-id'-zo) v. 1. to bind with a vow under penalty of curse and damnation [from G331] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include under, curse, and oath. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
anathematizo (an-ath-em-at-id'-zo) v. 1. to bind with a vow under penalty of curse and damnation [from G331] KJV: (bind under a) curse, bind with an oath Root(s): G331
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to take an oath
Usage: ἀνα-θεματίζω (ἀνίθεμα), [in LXX chiefly for חָרַם hi. (Num.21:2, 1Ki.15:3, al.), 1Ma.5:5 ;] to devote to destruction, declare or invoke anathema: absol., Mrk.14:71; ἐαντόν, to bind oneself under a curse: Act.23:12, 14 23:21 (cf. καταναθεματίζω, and on the occurrence of the word in π., see Deiss., LAE, 92 f.; MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anathematizo, 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, 1 Enoch, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G332 (ἀναθεματίζω) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
12 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Every devoted thing among the children of Israel shall be thine.
And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities to thee.
And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Canaanite into his power; and Israel devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place Anathema.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves
by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G332.
Every devoted thing among the children of Israel shall be thine.
And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities to thee.
And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Canaanite into his power; and Israel devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place Anathema.
thou shalt utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; ye shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.
but ye shall surely curse them, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; as the Lord thy God commanded thee:
and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the edge of the sword.
And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.
And now go, and thou shalt smite Amalek and Hierim and all that belongs to him, and thou shalt not save anything of him alive, but thou shalt utterly destroy him: and thou shalt devote him and all his to destruction, and thou shalt spare nothing belonging to him; and thou shalt slay both man and woman, and infant and suckling, and calf and sheep, and camel and ass.
Behold, thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to waste them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
And these who are written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and they smote the people’s houses, and the Meunites whom they found there, and utterly destroyed them until this day: and they dwelt in their place, because there was pasture there for their cattle.
And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.
But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves
by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G332, grouped by book.
Anathematizo (Strong's G332) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bind with an oath". anathematizo (an-ath-em-at-id'-zo) v. 1. to bind with a vow under penalty of curse and damnation [from G331]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G332 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G332 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 under, curse, and oath. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 12 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G332, with linked reader references where each row is available.