אָרַרʼârar
Pronunciation: aw-rar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H779
Meanings
Qal: curse (Malachi 2:2; Exodus 22:27; Numbers 22:6)
Niph`al: cursed (Malachi 3:9)
Pi`el: curse, lay under a curse (Genesis 5:29; Numbers 5:18-27)
Hoph`al: be cursed (Numbers 22:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 63 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 3:14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
- Genesis 3:17 And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
- Genesis 4:11 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother’s blood.
- Genesis 5:29 Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed.”
- Genesis 9:25 Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham: “May Canaan be cursed! May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.”
- Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
See every passage
- Genesis 3:14, 3:17, 4:11, 5:29, 9:25, 12:3, 27:29, 49:7
- Exodus 22:28
- Numbers 5:18, 5:19, 5:22, 5:24, 5:27, 22:6, 22:12, 23:7, 24:9
- Deuteronomy 27:15, 27:16, 27:17, 27:18, 27:19, 27:20, 27:21, 27:22, 27:23, 27:24, 27:25, 27:26, 28:16, 28:17, 28:18, 28:19
- Joshua 6:26, 9:23
- Judges 5:23, 21:18
- 1 Samuel 14:24, 14:28, 26:19
- 2 Kings 9:34
- Job 3:8
- Psalms 119:21
- Jeremiah 11:3, 17:5, 20:14, 20:15, 48:10
- Malachi 1:14, 2:2, 3:9
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).