Gematria of Curse
11 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “curse” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 594 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 11
- Occurrences
- 594
- Distinct values
- 10
The 11 Hebrew words rendered “curse”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:22בראשית א:כבוַיְבָרֶךְ
to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 8:8בראשית ח:חהֲקַלּוּ
physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination
First appearance ·Leviticus 27:21ויקרא כז:כאהַחֵרֶם
properly, something sworn, i.e. an oath
First appearance ·Genesis 24:8בראשית כד:חמִשְּׁבֻעָתִי
to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
First appearance ·Genesis 30:28בראשית ל:כחנָקְבָה
to scoop out, i.e. (figuratively) to malign or execrate (i.e. stab with words)
First appearance ·Numbers 22:11במדבר כב:יאקָֽבָה
properly, to adjure, i.e. (usually in a bad sense) imprecate
First appearance ·Judges 17:2שופטים יז:באָלִית
an execration
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 28:20דברים כח:כהַמְּאֵרָה
an imprecation
First appearance ·Lamentations 3:65איכה ג:סהתַּאֲלָֽתְךָ
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of curse?
The Tanakh renders “curse” with 11 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ברך = 222, קלל = 160, אלה = 36, and 7 more.
How do you say curse in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 11 Hebrew words for “curse”; the most frequent are ברך (bârak), 330 times; קלל (qâlal), 82 times; אלה (ʼâlâh), 42 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.