מְאֵרָהmᵉʼêrâh
an execration
Pronunciation: meh-ay-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3994
Meanings
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 “The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me.
- Proverbs 3:33 The Lord curses the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the upright.
- Proverbs 28:27 Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed.
- Malachi 2:2 Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart.
- Malachi 3:9 You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).