Curse
מְאֵרָהStrong’s H3994meerah (me-e-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meerah is the Hebrew word usually translated “curse”, “curse of” and “curses”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.”
Meaning
- Curse
How it's translated
- the curse 2
- curse of 1
- curses 1
- with curse 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Malachi 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
- Proverbs 28:27He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
- Malachi 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- Malachi 3:9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Hebrew dictionary
מְאֵרָה meerah · curse
curse
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “curse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURSE, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive cursed or curst.
- To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.“Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people” Exodus 22:28“Bless and curse not” Romans 12:14“CURSE me this people, for they are too mighty for me” Numbers 22:6
- To injure; to subject to evil; to vex, harass or torment with great calamities.
- To devote to evil.
All definitions and other forms of “curse”
CURSE, verb intransitive
To utter imprecations; to affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance.
- “Then began he to curse and to swear” Matthew 26:74
CURSE, noun
- Malediction; the expression of a wish of evil to another.
- Imprecation of evil.“They entered into a curse and into an oath” Nehemiah 10:29
- Affliction; torment; great vexation.“I will make this city a curse to all nations” Jeremiah 26:6
- Condemnation; sentence of divine vengeance on sinners.“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law” Galatians 3:13
- Denunciation of evil.“The priest shall write all these curses in a book” Numbers 5:23
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.