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Words
אָרַר H779
- Home gloss
- curse; passive participle cursed
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- curse
- Note
- Wave lexicon. The formula אָרוּר "cursed is…" (3:14, 17; 4:11; 9:25; Deut 27:15–26), the counterpart of בָּרוּךְ. In Gen 3 the serpent and the ground are cursed; the man and the woman are not
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (6)
- 3:14 And Elohim said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you from all the beast and from every living thing of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
- 3:17 And to man he said, "Because you heard the voice of your woman and ate from the tree that I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it,' cursed is the ground for your sake; in pain you shall eat it all the days of your life.
- 4:11 And now, cursed are you from the ground, which parted its mouth to take the bloods of your brother from your hand.
- 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall comfort us from our deed and from the pain of our hands, from the ground that cursed."
- 9:25 And he said,"Cursed is Canaan;a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers."
- 12:3 And I will bless those blessing you, and the one making light of you I will curse; and in you shall be blessed all the clans of the ground."