8 occurrences in 13 translations

'Curses' in the Bible

Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”

Woe is me, my mother,that you gave birth to me,a man who incites dispute and conflictin all the land.I did not lend or borrow,yet everyone curses me.

I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!

If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"

That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.

Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

For I solemnly swear," says the Lord, "that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever."

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀναθεματίζω 
Anathematizo 
Usage: 4

אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 7

אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 35

ארר 
'arar 
Usage: 63

בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

חרם חרם 
Cherem 
Usage: 38

מארה 
M@erah 
Usage: 5

נקב 
Naqab 
Usage: 22

קבב 
Qabab 
curse , at all
Usage: 11

קלל 
Qalal 
Usage: 82

קללה 
Q@lalah 
Usage: 33

שׁבוּעה 
Sh@buw`ah 
Usage: 30

תּאלה 
Ta'alah 
Usage: 1

ἀνάθεμα 
Anathema 
Usage: 6

ἀρά 
Ara 
Usage: 1

ἐπικατάρατος 
Epikataratos 
Usage: 3

κακολογέω 
Kakologeo 
Usage: 1

κατανάθεμα 
Katanathema 
Usage: 1

καταναθεματίζω 
Katanathematizo 
Usage: 1

κατάρα 
Katara 
Usage: 6

καταράομαι 
Kataraomai 
Usage: 3

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