Definition

to declare or vow under penalty of execration

Etymology

from G331 (ἀνάθεμα);

Word family

• ἀνάθεμα anáthema

How the KJV renders it

• (bind under a) curse
• bind with an oath

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.