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ἐπικατάρατος

epikatáratos · G1944 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. cursed, accursed

    Pertaining to being cursed

    Examples

    John 7:49 “But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed!”

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
אָרַר ʼârar · H779 · to curse, to place a curse, to bring on a curse
אָרַר (ʼârar, H779) אָרַר is the Hebrew verb 'to curse' (active verbal form), while ἐπικατάρατος (epikatáratos, G1944) ἐπικατάρατος is the Greek adjective/substantive 'cursed/accursed' (passive participial/resultative form); the two are cross-linguistic equivalents representing the verbal vs. adjectival expressions of the same curse concept, with the Greek term denoting the state of being under the curse that the Hebrew verb enacts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Cursed, accursed33.475
In John 7:49, the Pharisees dismiss the crowd that follows Jesus, saying “this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed,” ἐπικατάρατος marking their contemptuous judgment that such people stand under a curse.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀρά ará · G685 · curse · 1×κατάρα katára · G2671 · to curse, curse · 6×καταράομαι kataráomai · G2672 · to curse, curse · 5×ἐπικατάρατοςepikatáratos · G1944
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπικατάρατον (ἐπικαταράομαι to imprecate curses upon), only in Biblical and…
ἐπικατάρατον (ἐπικαταράομαι to imprecate curses upon), only in Biblical and ecclesiastical use, accursed, execrable, exposed to divine vengeance, lying under God's curse: Jn 7:49 R G; Gal 3:10 (Deut 27:26); Gal 3:13 (Deut 21:23); (Wis. 3:12 (Wis 3:13); Wisdom 14:8>; 4 Macc. 2:19; in the Sept. often for אָרוּר).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Bless, Curse6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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