{Curse} (anathematizein). Our word _anathema_ (ana,
thema, an offering, then something devoted or a curse). Finally
the two meanings were distinguished by anath(886d)a for offering
and anathema for curse. Deissmann has found examples at Megara
of anathema in the sense of curse. Hence the distinction
observed in the N.T. was already in the _Koin(825f).   Mt 26:74  has
katathematizein, which is a hapax legomenon in the N.T.,
though common in the LXX. This word has the notion of calling
down curses on one's self if the thing is not true.