מְאֵרָה
mᵉʼêrâh · H3994 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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a curse
An act by which humans consign other humans or objects to death, damage or destruction, usually by invoking a deity's name, done as punishment, out of contempt, anger or hostility, or for pay, its effectiveness depending partly on the authority of the speaker
ExamplesDeuteronomy 28:20 “The LORD will send against you curses, panic, and rebuke, in everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me.
Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the home of the righteous.
Proverbs 28:27 One who gives to the poor will never lack anything, But one who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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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Near synonyms 3 words
- קְלָלָה qᵉlâlâh · H7045 · curse, object of cursing
- Both words denote 'curse' as a noun, the affliction or the utterance itself, and are two words in the same language for this concept.
- תַּאֲלָה taʼălâh · H8381 · curse
- Both the target term and תַּאֲלָה (taʼălâh, H8381) denote curses and carry identical glosses. This is genuine same-language near-synonymy: two distinct Hebrew words for 'curse' that could substitute for each other in sense, though תַּאֲלָה's rarity (attested only once) limits the strength of independent corroboration.
- אָלָה ʼâlâh · H423 · oath, curse
- Both words denote curses. אָלָה (ʼâlâh, H423) also means 'oath' or 'swearing' alongside 'curse', so its scope may be broader or slightly different (a curse as an oath, as against a pure curse), but the core sense of cursing is shared.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κατάρα katára · G2671 · to curse, curse
- Greek κατάρα (katara) serves as the standard LXX equivalent for Hebrew מְאֵרָה, both denoting a formal curse or malediction pronounced against someone or something.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Curse002003002008
- מְאֵרָה denotes a curse, as in Malachi 2:2's warning "I will send the curse upon you," placing it among terms for invoked misfortune or condemnation.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3994. meerah מְאֵרָה noun feminine a curse Deu 28:20; Mal 2:2; Mal 3:9; construct…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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