- Transliteration: Anathema

- Phonetic: an-ath'-em-ah

- Definition:

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

a. 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

a. a curse

b. a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes

- Origin: from G394" class="dictionary-topic-link">G394

- TDNT entry: 06:54,6

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From G394" class="dictionary-topic-link">G394; a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person): - accursed anathema curse X great.