Definition

a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person)

Etymology

from G394 (ἀνατίθεμαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• accused
• anathema
• curse
• X great

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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