Epikataratos appears twice in the New Testament (John 7:49; Galatians 3:10, 13), derived from epi (upon) + katara (curse). It describes one who is under a divine curse — whether the crowd's contemptuous dismissal of the ignorant masses (John 7:49) or the serious theological statement of Galatians 3 about the curse of the Law. The word is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew arur (cursed) — the covenant curse.
Galatians 3:10-13 is the theological center of epikataratos: Paul quotes Deuteronomy 27:26 ('Cursed [epikataratos] is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law') and Deuteronomy 21:23 ('Cursed [epikataratos] is everyone who is hung on a pole'). The Gospel's power: Christ became an epikataratos for us (Galatians 3:13) — He bore the full weight of the covenant curse so that in Him we receive the covenant blessing. The Cross is the place where the epikataratos became the Blessed One's voluntary dwelling so that the cursed might go free.