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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; void; nugatory; of no effect.

2. (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.

3. (v. t.) To make null; to nullify; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

FRUSTRATE

frus'-trat (parar; atheteo): "Frustrate" (from frustra, "vain") is the translation of parar, "to break," "to make void," "to bring to nothing" (Ezra 4:5), "to frustrate their purpose" (Isaiah 44:25, "that frustrateth the signs of the liars"); of atheteo, "to displace," "to reject or make void or null": Galatians 2:21, "I do not frustrate the grace of God" (by setting up the righteousness which is "through the law"), the Revised Version (British and American) "make void"; compare APC 1Macc 11:36, "Nothing hereof shall be revoked," the Revised Version (British and American) "annulled" (atheteo).

Revised Version has "frustrateth" for "disappointeth" (Job 5:12, parar).

The adjective appears (APC 2Esdras 10:34), "frustrate of my hope" (APC Judith 11:11, "frustrate of his purpose" (apraktos)).

W. L. Walker

Greek

1581. ekkopto -- to cut off, cut down, cut out, fig. to frustrate
... to frustrate. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekkopto Phonetic Spelling:
(ek-kop'-to) Short Definition: I cut out, cut off Definition: I cut out (off, away ...
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114. atheteo -- to do away with what has been laid down, set aside
... and a derivative of tithemi; to set aside, ie (by implication) to disesteem, neutralize
or violate -- cast off, despise, disannul, frustrate, bring to nought ...
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2617. kataischuno -- to curse vehemently
... kat-ahee-skhoo'-no) Short Definition: I shame, disgrace, put to utter confusion
Definition: I shame, disgrace, bring to shame, put to utter confusion, frustrate ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6565a. parar -- to break, frustrate
... 6565, 6565a. parar. 6565b . to break, frustrate. Transliteration: parar
Short Definition: break. Word Origin a prim. root Definition ...
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6565. parar -- to break, frustrate
... 6564, 6565. parar. 6565a . to break, frustrate. Transliteration: parar
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-rar') Short Definition: defeat. break ...
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5106. nu -- to hinder, restrain, frustrate
... 5105, 5106. nu. 5107 . to hinder, restrain, frustrate. Transliteration: nu
Phonetic Spelling: (noo) Short Definition: forbid. Word Origin a prim. ...
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Library

Impressive Phrases
... animosity, malice, enmity, and hatred. annul, frustrate, reverse, and destroy. ... base,
cowardly, abject, and hideous. battle, defeat, frustrate, and ruin. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

Other Self-Asserting Augustae --Verina, Ariadne, Sophia, Martina ...
... and machinations. She even formed a plot to assassinate him, which he was
fortunate enough to discover and frustrate. Recognizing ...
/.../women of early christianity/xii other self-asserting augustaeverina ariadne.htm

The Assumption of Moses
... And the devil wished to frustrate this purpose. He saw an opportunity of using the
mortal remains of Moses to draw away the Israelites from true religion. ...
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Concerning the Outward Manifestations by which this Second ...
... may, by itself pronouncing against the sinner, stand in the stead of God's indignation,
and by temporal mortification (I will not say frustrate, but) expunge ...
/.../tertullian/on repentance/chapter ix concerning the outward manifestations.htm

Death to Self is the Way Out into a Life of Sacrifice.
... even in God's service. And these things hold down, hold in our souls, and
frustrate the Spirit in His working. The latent self-life ...
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Prayer and vigilance
... It entails effort, wrestling, struggling; it demands the putting forth of the full
energy of the spirit in order to frustrate the foe and to come off, at the ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xi prayer and vigilance.htm

Motives from the Benefits of Work
... it, that when you see the excellency of it, you may be the more set upon it, and
the more loath, by any negligence or failing of yours, to frustrate or destroy ...
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Preface
... disputed points to be settled. "The patience of the godly shall not be
frustrate" (Ecclus. xvi.13). In conclusion I must record ...
/.../daubney/the three additions to daniel a study/preface.htm

Introduction to the Treatise De Synodis.
... and mastered the complete argument. His aim throughout is to frustrate the
heretic and assist the Catholic. In the first or historical ...
/.../introduction to the treatise de.htm

Conclusion
... But yet GOD to whose Gospell she declared her selfe enemie, in the end [did] frustrate
her of her deuises. The Historie of the Church of Scotland, pp.192-193. ...
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Thesaurus

Frustrate (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint;
to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to ...
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Frustrated (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Frustrate. Multi-Version Concordance
Frustrated (7 Occurrences). Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees ...
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Thwart (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) To block or prevent; to frustrate; as,
to thwart an attempted change; to thwart a rebellion. 2 ...
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Discomfit (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To thwart the plans of; frustrate; disconcert.
2. (vt) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to ...
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Plans (55 Occurrences)
... Ezra 4:5 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the
days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. ...
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Fruit-trees (5 Occurrences)
Fruit-trees. Fruit-tree, Fruit-trees. Frustrate . Multi-Version Concordance ...
(BBE). Fruit-tree, Fruit-trees. Frustrate . Reference Bible.
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Resist (23 Occurrences)
... obstruct. 2. (vt) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat,
or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. 3. (vt ...
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Dash (30 Occurrences)
... used with against. 2. (vt) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to
shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. 3. (vt) To put ...
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Disappoint (2 Occurrences)
... enemy of his spoil. 2. (vt) To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. Int.
Standard Bible Encyclopedia. DISAPPOINT. dis-a-point': "To ...
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Delude (2 Occurrences)
... to make a fool of. 2. (vt) To frustrate or disappoint. Multi-Version
Concordance Delude (2 Occurrences). Colossians 2:4 Now this ...
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Bible Concordance

Frustrate (7 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
(See NIV)

Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
(KJV WBS)

2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
(See NIV)

Ezra 4:5 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 4:15 And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;
(YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 14:6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
(WEB NIV)

Isaiah 14:27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
(DBY NAS)

Subtopics

Frustrate

Related Terms

Frustrated (7 Occurrences)

Thwart (5 Occurrences)

Discomfit (6 Occurrences)

Plans (55 Occurrences)

Fruit-trees (5 Occurrences)

Resist (23 Occurrences)

Dash (30 Occurrences)