What does ἀρά (ará) mean in the Bible?
ἀρά (ará) is a Greek word meaning "curse".
Greek · G685
ἀρά
Curse
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ἀράG685
Pronunciationará
What does ἀρά (ará) mean in the Bible?
ἀρά (ará) is a Greek word meaning "curse".
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How does the BSB render G685?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include of cursing (1).
Where does ἀρά (ará) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 3:14. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (1).
Are there verse guides for ἀρά (ará)?
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itof cursing1×Romans 3:14
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First aligned rowRomans 3:14
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Romans1
Source forms
ἀρᾶς1xarasRomans 3:14
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xRomans 3:14
Key Verse and Form Guides
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Evidence Summary
Greek word. curse
Source Gloss
curse
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
arav
a prayer or prayer for evil, a curse, imprecation
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Word Origins
ἀρά is built from this root:
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