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κατάρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάρα

Structure: καταρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a curse

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ ἡ μήτηρ. ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ ἡ κατάρα σου, τέκνον. μόνον ὑπάκουσόν μοι τῆσ φωνῆσ καὶ πορευθεὶσ ἔνεγκέ μοι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:13)
  • ΚΑΙ ἔσται ὡσ ἂν ἔλθωσιν ἐπὶ σὲ πάντα τὰ ρήματα ταῦτα, ἡ εὐλογία καὶ ἡ κατάρα, ἣν ἔδωκα πρὸ προσώπου σου, καὶ δέξῃ εἰσ τὴν καρδίαν σου ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν, οὗ ἐὰν διασκορπίσῃ σε Κύριοσ ἐκεῖ, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 30:1)
  • καὶ τὴν πᾶσαν πονηρίαν ἀνδρῶν Συχὲμ ἐπέστρεψεν ὁ Θεὸσ εἰσ κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπῆλθεν ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ἡ κατάρα Ἰωάθαμ υἱοῦ Ἱεροβάαλ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:57)
  • κατάρα Θεοῦ ἐν οἴκοισ ἀσεβῶν, ἐπαύλεισ δὲ δικαίων εὐλογοῦνται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 3:33)
  • εὐλογία γὰρ πατρὸσ στηρίζει οἴκουσ τέκνων, κατάρα δὲ μητρὸσ ἐκριζοῖ θεμέλια. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 3:9)

Synonyms

  1. a curse

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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