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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 26
    spellings

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

Eleven of the word's thirty-three uses are in Deuteronomy.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

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.”

    Genesis 27:12

    • 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.”

    Genesis 27:13

    • 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—

    Deuteronomy 11:26

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 11:28

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 11:29

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 21:23

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 23:5

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 27:13

    • 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:

    Deuteronomy 28:15

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:45

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 29:27

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 30:1

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 30:19

    • 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.

    Joshua 8:34

    • 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.

    Judges 9:57

    • 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.”

    2 Samuel 16:12

    • 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.’

    1 Kings 2:8

    • 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.

    2 Kings 22:19

    • 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).

    Nehemiah 13:2

    • 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.

    Psalms 109:17

    • 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.

    Psalms 109:18

    • קְלָלָ֗הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse

Proverbs

two uses
  • Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

    Proverbs 26:2

    • 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.

    Proverbs 27:14

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 24:9

    • 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;

    Jeremiah 25:18

    • 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.’”

    Jeremiah 26:6

    • 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!’

    Jeremiah 29:22

    • 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.’

    Jeremiah 42:18

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 44:8

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 44:12

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 44:22

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 49:13

    • 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.”

    Zechariah 8:13

    • קְלָלָ֜הkelalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curse

The letters

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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