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And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Read in context →And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
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qᵉlâlâh · kel-aw-law'
vilification
Strong's KJV usage: (ac-) curse(-d, -ing).
Strong's first: Genesis 27:12Strong's last: Zechariah 8:13
Open full H7045 profile →qâlal · kaw-lal'
to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-) curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set) light(-en, -er, -ly, -ly afflict, -ly esteem, thing), × slight(-ly), be swift(-er), (be, be more, make, re-) vile, whet.
Strong's first: Genesis 8:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:10
Open full H7043 profile →ʼârar · aw-rar'
to execrate
Strong's KJV usage: × bitterly curse.
Strong's first: Genesis 12:3Strong's last: Malachi 2:2
Open full H779 profile →ʼâlâh · aw-law'
an imprecation
Strong's KJV usage: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
Strong's first: Numbers 5:21Strong's last: Zechariah 5:3
Open full H423 profile →qâbab · kaw-bab'
to scoop out, i.e. (figuratively) to malign or execrate (i.e. stab with words)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, curse.
Strong's first: Numbers 22:11Strong's last: Numbers 24:10
Open full H6895 profile →nâqab · naw-kab'
to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.
Strong's first: Numbers 23:8Strong's last: Proverbs 24:24
Open full H5344 profile →chêrem · khay'-rem
physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination
Strong's KJV usage: (ac-) curse(-d, -d thing), dedicated thing, things which should have been utterly destroyed, (appointed to) utter destruction, devoted (thing), net.
Strong's first: Joshua 6:18Strong's last: Malachi 4:6
Open full H2764 profile →mᵉʼêrâh · meh-ay-raw'
an execration
Strong's KJV usage: curse.
Strong's first: Proverbs 3:33Strong's last: Malachi 3:9
Open full H3994 profile →katára · kat-ar'-ah
imprecation, execration
Strong's KJV usage: :--curse(-d, ing).
Strong's first: Galatians 3:10Strong's last: Galatians 3:13
Open full G2671 profile →kataráomai · kat-ar-ah'-om-ahee
to execrate; by analogy, to doom
Strong's KJV usage: :--curse.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:44Strong's last: Romans 12:14
Open full G2672 profile →bârak · baw-rak'
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
Strong's KJV usage: × abundantly, × altogether, × at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, × greatly, × indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, × still, thank.
Strong's first: Job 1:11Strong's last: Job 2:9
Open full H1288 profile →anathematízō · an-ath-em-at-id'-zo
to declare or vow under penalty of execration
Strong's KJV usage: :--(bind under a) curse, bind with an oath.
Strong's first: Mark 14:71Strong's last: Acts 23:12
Open full G332 profile →anáthema · an-ath'-em-ah
a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person)
Strong's KJV usage: :--accused, anathema, curse, X great.
Strong's first: Acts 23:14Strong's last: Acts 23:14
Open full G331 profile →katanáthema · kat-an-ath'-em-ah
an imprecation
Strong's KJV usage: :--curse.
Strong's first: Revelation 22:3Strong's last: Revelation 22:3
Open full G2652 profile →katanathematízō · kat-an-ath-em-at-id'-zo
to imprecate
Strong's KJV usage: :--curse.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:74Strong's last: Matthew 26:74
Open full G2653 profile →shᵉbûwʻâh · sheb-oo-aw'
properly, something sworn, i.e. an oath
Strong's KJV usage: curse, oath, × sworn.
Strong's first: Isaiah 65:15Strong's last: Isaiah 65:15
Open full H7621 profile →taʼălâh · tah-al-aw'
an imprecation
Strong's KJV usage: curse.
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:65Strong's last: Lamentations 3:65
Open full H8381 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
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 imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
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 the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
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.
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.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
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CURSE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive cursed or curst.
1. To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.
Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people. Exodus 22:28.
Bless and curse not. Romans 12:14.
CURSE me this people, for they are too mighty for me. Numbers 22:6.
2. To injure; to subject to evil; to vex, harass or torment with great calamities.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose thy plagues, and curse em with such sons as those.
3. To devote to evil.
CURSE, verb intransitive To utter imprecations; to affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance.
Then began he to curse and to swear. Matthew 26:74.
CURSE, noun
1. Malediction; the expression of a wish of evil to another.
Shimei--who cured me with a grievous curse 1 Kings 2:8.
2. Imprecation of evil.
They entered into a curse and into an oath. Nehemiah 10:29.
3. Affliction; torment; great vexation.
I will make this city a curse to all nations. Jeremiah 26:6.
4. Condemnation; sentence of divine vengeance on sinners.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. Galatians 3:10.
5. Denunciation of evil.
The priest shall write all these curses in a book. Numbers 5:18.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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