Greek noun (feminine) · G685

ἀρά

araar-ah'

a prayer (MM, see word).; (as in Homer) a curse

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ará

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G685is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G685

properly, prayer (as lifted to Heaven), i.e. (by implication) imprecation

The King James renders it: curse.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

ara is rendered "a prayer (MM, see word).; (as in Homer) a curse". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

One of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a prayer (MM, see word).".
Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 3:14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

The first use

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Romans 3:14ἀρᾶς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

Romans1

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a prayer (MM, see word)., and (as in Homer) a curse.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
Meaning	Tagged as	Where
a prayer (MM, see word).	Tagged aslisted under the table	WhereRomans 3:14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
(as in Homer) a cursemalediction	Tagged as of cursing1	WhereRomans 3:14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

Word	Written	Meaning	Uses
ἄρα	ara	therefore	Uses49
ἆρα	ara	no?	Uses3

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

ἀρᾶς1

The grammar of each form

noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF

Romans

one use

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Romans 3:14
- ἀρᾶςarasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of cursing

Where it leads

Read Romans 3:14 in context →

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.