Anathema

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(devoted). The devoted thing, if inanimate, fell to the priests (Num. 18:18); if animate, it was to be slain (Lev. 27:28-29). In N. T. a curse (Rom. 9:3; 1 Cor. 12:3; 16:22). In the latter instance Maranatha is added, the meaning being “Let him be accursed.”