Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7045
קְלָלָה
qelalahkel-aw-law'
curse
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qᵉlâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7045is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7045
vilification
The King James renders it: (ac-) curse(-d, -ing).
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
qelalah is rendered "curse". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:12What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Genesis 27:12קְלָלָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a curse8
- and into a curse7
- the curse5
- and the curse4
- into a curse2
- the curses2
- a curse of1
- and a curse1
- curse his1
- curse of1
- curse your1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 spellings 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
- הַקְּלָלָ֖ה4
- וְלִקְלָלָ֖ה3
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֑ה2
- וְלִקְלָלָ֔ה2
- הַקְּלָלָ֔ה1
- הַקְּלָל֥וֹת1
- הַקְּלָל֣וֹת1
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֗ה1
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֔ה1
- וְלִקְלָלָ֣ה1
- וְלִקְלָלָ֛ה1
- וּקְלָלָֽה׃1
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular7HC/R/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular4HC/Td/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
Genesis
two uses
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
- קְלָלָ֖הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
- קִלְלָתְךָ֖kilatechanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: curse your
Deuteronomy
eleven uses
See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
- וּקְלָלָֽה׃ukelalahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a curse
but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֗הvehakelalahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the curse
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- הַקְּלָלָ֖הhakelalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curse
you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- קִלְלַ֥תkilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a curse of
Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
- הַקְּלָלָ֖הhakelalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curse
And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
- הַקְּלָלָ֖הhakelalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curse
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- הַקְּלָל֥וֹתhakelalotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the curses
All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
- הַקְּלָל֣וֹתhakelalotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the curses
Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
- הַקְּלָלָ֔הhakelalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curse
“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֔הvehakelalahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the curse
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֑הvehakelalahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the curse
Joshua
one use
Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
- וְהַקְּלָלָ֑הvehakelalahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the curse
Judges
one use
And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
- קִֽלֲלַ֖תkilalatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: curse of
2 Samuel
one use
Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- קִלְלָת֖וֹkilatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: curse his
1 Kings
one use
Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’
- קְלָלָ֣הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
2 Kings
one use
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
- וְלִקְלָלָ֔הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
Nehemiah
one use
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- הַקְּלָלָ֖הhakelalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curse
Psalms
two uses
The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
- קְ֭לָלָהkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
- קְלָלָ֗הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
Proverbs
two uses
Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.
- קִֽלְלַ֥תkilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a curse
If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.
- קְ֝לָלָ֗הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
Jeremiah
nine uses
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- וְלִקְלָלָ֔הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- וְלִקְלָלָ֖הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
- לִקְלָלָ֔הliklalahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a curse
Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
- קְלָלָ֔הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
- וְלִקְלָלָ֣הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.
- לִקְלָלָ֣הliklalahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a curse
And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- וְלִקְלָלָ֖הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
- וְלִקְלָלָ֛הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- וְלִקְלָלָ֖הveliklalahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into a curse
Zechariah
one use
As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
- קְלָלָ֜הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse
Where it leads
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
