685. ara

Lexicon

ara: cursing

Original Word: ἄρα
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: ara
Pronunciation: AH-rah
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-ah')
KJV: curse
NASB: cursing
Word Origin: [probably from G142 (αἴρω - take)]

1. (properly) a prayer (as lifted to Heaven)
2. (commonly, by implication) a curse

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

curse.

Probably from airo; properly, prayer (as lifted to Heaven), i.e. (by implication) imprecation -- curse.

see GREEK airo

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
a prayer, curse
NASB Translation
cursing (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 685: ἄρα (3)

ἄρα (3), ἄρας, ἡ,

1. a prayer; a supplication; much more often

2. an imprecation, curse, malediction (cf. κατάρα); so in Romans 3:14 (cf. Psalm 9:28 ()), and often in the Sept. (In both senses in native Greek writings from Homer down.)

Forms and Transliterations

αρά άρα αραί αραίς αράν αρας αράς ἀρᾶς aras arâs

Englishman's Concordance

Romans 3:14 N-GFS
GRK: τὸ στόμα ἀρᾶς καὶ πικρίας
NAS: IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS;
KJV: [is] full of cursing and
INT: the mouth of cursing and of bitterness

Strong's Greek 685
1 Occurrence

ἀρᾶς — 1 Occ.