Word Summary
anathematizō: to declare anathema, devote to destruction
Original Word: ἀναθεματίζωTransliteration: anathematizō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ath-em-at-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to declare anathema, devote to destruction
Meaning: to declare anathema, devote to destruction
Strong's Concordance
curse, bind with an oath.
From anathema; to declare or vow under penalty of execration -- (bind under a) curse, bind with an oath.
see GREEK anathema
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 332: ἀναθεματίζωἀναθεματίζω; 1 aorist
ἀνεθεμάτισα; (
ἀνάθεμα, which see); a purely Biblical and ecclesiastical word,
to declare anathema or accursed; in the
Sept. equivalent to
הֶחֱרִים to devote to destruction (
Joshua 6:21, etc.; 1 Macc. 5:5);
ἑαυτόν to declare oneself liable to the severest divine penalties,
Acts 23:12, 21;
ἀναθέματι ἀναθεματίζειν (
Deuteronomy 13:15;
Deuteronomy 20:17 (
Winers Grammar, § 54, 3;
Buttmann, 184 (109)))
ἑαυτόν, followed by an infinitive, to bind oneself under a curse to do something,
Acts 23:14. absolutely, to asseverate with direful imprecations:
Mark 14:71. (Compare:
καταναθεματίζω.)