Strong's #331: anathema (pronounced an-ath'-em-ah)

from 394; a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person):--accused, anathema, curse, X great.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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anathema

1) a thing set up or laid by in order to be kept

1a) specifically, an offering resulting from a vow, which after being consecrated to a god was hung upon the walls or columns of the temple, or put in some other conspicuous place

2) a thing devoted to God without hope of being redeemed, and if an animal, to be slain; therefore a person or thing doomed to destruction

2a) a curse

2b) a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G394

Citing in TDNT: 1:354, 57

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Acts 23:14: "and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing"
Romans 9:3: "could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my"
1 Corinthians 12:3: "the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can"
1 Corinthians 16:22: "Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha."
Galatians 1:8: "that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."
Galatians 1:9: "that ye have received, let him be accursed."