{"def":{"short":"a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person)","long":["a thing set up or laid by in order to be kept",["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"],"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 curse","a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes"]]},"deriv":"from G0394","pronun":{"ipa":"ɑˈnɑ.θɛ.mɑ","ipa_mod":"ɑˈnɑ.θe̞.mɑ","sbl":"anathema","dic":"ah-NA-theh-ma","dic_mod":"ah-NA-thay-ma"},"see":["G0394"]}