Definition

imprecation, execration

Etymology

from G2596 (κατά) (intensive) and G685 (ἀρά);

Word family

• κατά katá
• ἀρά ará

How the KJV renders it

• curse(-d
• ing)

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.