{"id":40695,"date":"2022-09-28T13:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/curse-cursing-noun-and-verb-cursed-accursed\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:46:33","slug":"curse-cursing-noun-and-verb-cursed-accursed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/curse-cursing-noun-and-verb-cursed-accursed\/","title":{"rendered":"Curse, Cursing (Noun and Verb), Cursed, Accursed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Curse, Cursing (Noun and Verb), Cursed, Accursed<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> in its most usual meaning, &#8220;a malediction, cursing&#8221; (its other meaning is &#8220;a prayer&#8221;), is used in <span class='bible'>Rom 3:14<\/span> (often in the Sept.). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> kata, &#8220;down,&#8221; intensive, and No. 1, denotes an &#8220;execration, imprecation, curse,&#8221; uttered out of malevolence, <span class='bible'>Jam 3:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Pe 2:14<\/span>; or pronounced by God in His righteous judgment, as upon a land doomed to barrenness, <span class='bible'>Heb 6:8<\/span>; upon those who seek for justification by obedience, in part or completely, to the Law, <span class='bible'>Gal 3:10<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Gal 3:13<\/span>; in this 13th verse it is used concretely of Christ, as having &#8220;become a curse&#8221; for us, i.e., by voluntarily undergoing on the Cross the appointed penalty of the &#8220;curse.&#8221; He thus was identified, on our behalf, with the doom of sin. Here, not the verb in the Sept. of <span class='bible'>Deu 21:23<\/span> is used (see B, No. 3), but the concrete noun. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> transliterated from the Greek, is frequently used in the Sept., where it translates the Heb. cherem, &#8220;a thing devoted to God,&#8221; whether (a) for His service, as the sacrifices, <span class='bible'>Lev 27:28<\/span> (cp. anathema, a votive offering, gift), or (b) for its destruction, as an idol, <span class='bible'>Deu 7:26<\/span>, or a city, <span class='bible'>Jos 6:17<\/span>. Later it acquired the more general meaning of &#8220;the disfavor of Jehovah,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Zec 14:11<\/span>. This is the meaning in the NT. It is used of (a) the sentence pronounced, <span class='bible'>Act 23:14<\/span> (lit., &#8220;cursed themselves with a curse;&#8221; see anathematizo below); (b) of the object on which the &#8220;curse&#8221; is laid, &#8220;accursed;&#8221; in the following, the RV keeps to the word &#8220;anathema,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Rom 9:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 12:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 16:22<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Gal 1:8-9<\/span>, all of which the AV renders by &#8220;accursed&#8221; except <span class='bible'>1Co 16:22<\/span>, where it has &#8220;Anathema.&#8221; In <span class='bible'>Gal 1:8-9<\/span>, the Apostle declares in the strongest manner that the Gospel he preached was the one and only way of salvation, and that to preach another was to nullify the Death of Christ. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> or, as in some mss., the longer form katanathema, is stronger than No. 3 (kata, intensive), and denotes, by metonymy, &#8220;an accursed thing&#8221; (the object cursed being put for the curse pronounced), <span class='bible'>Rev 22:3<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> akin to No. 3, signifies &#8220;to declare anathema,&#8221; i.e., &#8220;devoted to destruction, accursed, to curse,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mar 14:71<\/span>, or &#8220;to bind by a curse,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Act 23:12<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Act 23:14<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Act 23:21<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> a strengthened form of No. 1, denotes &#8220;to utter curses against,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mat 26:74<\/span>; cp. Mark&#8217;s word concerning the same occasion (No. 1). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> akin to A, No. 2, primarily signifies &#8220;to pray against, to wish evil against a person or thing,&#8221; hence &#8220;to curse,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mat 25:41<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 11:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 6:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 12:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jam 3:9<\/span>. Some mss. have it in <span class='bible'>Mat 5:44<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;to speak evil&#8221; (kakos, &#8220;evil,&#8221; lego, &#8220;to speak&#8221;), is translated by the verb &#8220;to curse&#8221; in <span class='bible'>Mat 15:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 7:10<\/span>, &#8220;to speak evil of father and mother,&#8221; not necessarily &#8220;to curse,&#8221; is what the Lord intended (RV). AV and RV have the verb &#8220;to speak evil&#8221; in <span class='bible'>Mar 9:39<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 19:9<\/span>. See EVIL. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> cursed, accursed&#8221; (epi, &#8220;upon,&#8221; and A, No. 2), is used in <span class='bible'>Gal 3:10<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Gal 3:13<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;accursed,&#8221; is found, in the best mss., in <span class='bible'>Joh 7:49<\/span>, RV, &#8220;accursed,&#8221; instead of No. 1. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curse, Cursing (Noun and Verb), Cursed, Accursed in its most usual meaning, &#8220;a malediction, cursing&#8221; (its other meaning is &#8220;a prayer&#8221;), is used in Rom 3:14 (often in the Sept.). kata, &#8220;down,&#8221; intensive, and No. 1, denotes an &#8220;execration, imprecation, curse,&#8221; uttered out of malevolence, Jam 3:10; 2Pe 2:14; or pronounced by God in His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/curse-cursing-noun-and-verb-cursed-accursed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curse, Cursing (Noun and Verb), Cursed, Accursed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}