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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n. & adv.) See Naught.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

NOUGHT

not (chinnam; katargeo) "Nought" is to be distinguished from "naught" implying "badness" (see NAUGHT). "Nought" in the sense of "nothing," etc., is the translation of chinnam, "gratis" (Genesis 29:15), and of various other words occurring once only, e.g. 'awen, "vanity" (Amos 5:5); tohu, "vacancy," "ruin" (Isaiah 49:4); 'epha`, "nothing" (Isaiah 41:24); nabhel, "to fade" (Job 14:18, margin "fadeth away"); pur, "to make void" (Psalm 33:10); katargeo, "to make without effect" (1 Corinthians 1:28; 1 Corinthians 2:6); oudeis, "not even one" (Acts 5:36); apelegmos, "refutation" (Acts 19:27, the Revised Version (British and American) "come into disrepute"); dorean, "without payment" (2 Thessalonians 3:8, the Revised Version (British and American) "for nought"); eremoo, "to desolate" (Revelation 18:17, the Revised Version (British and American) "made desolate"); kataluo, "to loose down" (Acts 5:38, the Revised Version (British and American) "be overthrown"). In Apocrypha we have "set at nought" and "come to nought," etc. (1 Esdras 1:56; 2 Esdras 2:33; 8:59).

For "nought" the Revised Version (British and American) has "perish" (Deuteronomy 28:63); for "come to nought" (Job 8:22), "be no more"; "nought" for "not ought" (Exodus 5:11), for "no might" (Deuteronomy 28:32); for "brought to silence," twice (Isaiah 15:1), "brought to nought"; the American Standard Revised Version "bring to nought" (1 Corinthians 1:19) for "bring to nothing" (the English Revised Version "reject"); "nought but terror" (Isaiah 28:19) for "a vexation only"; "brought to nought" (Isaiah 16:4) for "is at an end"; "come to nought" for "taken none effect" (Romans 9:6); "set at nought" for "despise" (Romans 14:3).

W. L. Walker

Greek

1848. exoutheneo -- to despise, treat with contempt
... 1848 (from 1537 , "completely out from," which intensifies , "bring to naught, reduce
to nothing") -- properly, cast as nothing; set at nought; "to count as ...
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2673. katargeo -- to render inoperative, abolish
... ie being of ( without force, completely brought ); done away with, cause to and
therefore abolish; make invalid, abrogate (bring to nought); "to make idle or ...
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114. atheteo -- to do away with what has been laid down, set aside
... aside (3), sets...aside (1), setting aside (1). cast off, despise, bring
to nought, reject. From a compound of a (as a negative ...
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2647. kataluo -- to destroy, overthrow
... overthrown (1), tear down (1), torn down (4). destroy, dissolve, lodge, come
to nought. From kata and luo; to loosen down (disintegrate ...
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1847. exoudeneo -- to despise, treat with contempt
... to despise, treat with contempt. From ek and a derivative of the neuter of oudeis;
to make utterly nothing of, ie Despise -- set at nought. See also exoutheneo. ...
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3762. oudeis and outheis, oudemia, ouden and outhen -- no one ...
... ie None, nobody, nothing -- any (man), aught, man, neither any (thing), never (man),
no (man), none (+ of these things), not (any, at all, -thing), nought. ...
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2049. eremoo -- to desolate
... make desolate, come to nothing. From eremos; to lay waste (literally or figuratively) --
(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought. see GREEK eremos. ...
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557. apelegmos -- refutation, ie by impl. contempt
... contempt NASB Word Usage disrepute (1). discredit. From a compound of apo and elegcho;
refutation, ie (by implication) contempt -- nought. see GREEK apo. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

369. ayin -- nothing, nought
... 368b, 369. ayin. 370 . nothing, nought. Transliteration: ayin Phonetic
Spelling: (ah'-yin) Short Definition: no. Word Origin a prim. ...
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659. epha -- of nothing
... epha. 660 . of nothing. Transliteration: epha Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-fah) Short
Definition: nought. Word Origin of uncertain derivation, perhaps for ephes, qv ...
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434. elul -- thing of nothing
... elul. 435 . thing of nothing. Transliteration: elul Phonetic Spelling: (el-ool')
Short Definition: nought. ... For 'eliyl; good for nothing -- thing of nought. ...
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8414. tohu -- formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
... of surface), ie Desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain --
confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity ...
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656. aphes -- to cease, fail, come to an end
... be clean gone at an end, brought to nothing, fail. A primitive root; to disappear,
ie Cease -- be clean gone (at an end, brought to nought), fail. 655, 656. ...
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3808. lo -- not
... ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)),
(X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of ...
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6331. pur -- break, bring to nothing, utterly take
... Word Origin see parar. break, bring to nothing, utterly take A primitive root; to
crush -- break, bring to nought, X utterly take. 6330, 6331. pur. 6332 . ...
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2600. chinnam -- out of favor
... gratis, ie Devoid of cost, reason or advantage -- without a cause (cost, wages),
causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain. ...
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457. elil -- insufficiency, worthlessness
... Apparently from 'al; good for nothing, by anal. Vain or vanity; specifically an
idol -- idol, no value, thing of nought. see HEBREW 'al. 456, 457. elil. 458 ...
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1952. hon -- wealth, sufficiency
... From the same as huwn in the sense of 'own; wealth; by implication, enough -- enough, +
for nought, riches, substance, wealth. see HEBREW huwn. see HEBREW 'own. ...
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Library

"Faith is Nought Else but a Right Understanding, with True Belief ...
... ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS CHAPTER LIV "Faith is
nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure trust, of our ...
/.../julian/revelations of divine love/chapter liv faith is nought.htm

Death Brought to Nought by the Death of Christ. Why Then did not ...
... On the Incarnation of the Word. Section 21. Death brought to nought by the death
of Christ. Why then did not Christ die privately, or in a more honourable way? ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/section 21 death brought to.htm

That Nowhere Bodily, is Everywhere Ghostly; and How Our Outer Man ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE EIGHT AND SIXTIETH CHAPTER That nowhere bodily, is everywhere
ghostly; and how our outer man calleth the word of this book nought. ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the eight and 5.htm

How that a Man's Affection is Marvelously Changed in Ghostly ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE NINE AND SIXTIETH CHAPTER How that a man's affection is marvelously
changed in ghostly feeling of this nought, when it is nowhere wrought. ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the nine and 5.htm

The Substance of all Perfection is Nought Else but a Good Will ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE NINE AND FORTIETH CHAPTER The substance of all perfection is
nought else but a good will; and how that all sounds and comfort and sweetness ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the nine and 3.htm

"If I Look Singularly to Myself, I am Right Nought"
... THE FIRST REVELATION CHAPTER IX "If I look singularly to myself, I am right
nought". "If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought" ...
/.../julian/revelations of divine love/chapter ix if i look.htm

That Perfect Love Binds to God Without Loosing and Makes Man ...
... BOOK II CHAPTER XI THAT PERFECT LOVE BINDS TO GOD WITHOUT LOOSING AND MAKES
MAN MINDFUL OF HIS GOD; BUT LOVE OF THE WORLD FALLS TO NOUGHT. ...
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"We Fail Oftentimes of the Sight of Him, and Anon we Fall into Our ...
... CHAPTER XLVII "We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our
self, and then find we no feeling of right,"nought but contrariness that is ...
/.../julian/revelations of divine love/chapter xlvii we fail oftentimes.htm

"Alas for Us, if Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth"
... "Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth". A Sermon (No.562).
Delivered on Sunday Morning, March 27th, 1864, by the. Rev. CH SPURGEON,. ...
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That Right as by the Defailing of Our Bodily Wits we Begin More ...
... AND therefore travail fast in this nought, and this nowhere, and leave thine outward
bodily wits and all that they work in: for I tell thee truly, that this ...
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Thesaurus

Nought (104 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. NOUGHT. not (chinnam; katargeo) "Nought" is to
be distinguished from "naught" implying "badness" (see NAUGHT). ...
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Freely (101 Occurrences)
... In Revelation 6:15 the word is simply eleutheros, "a free man" as opposed to a slave.
(1) Gratis, for nothing (Numbers 11:5, chinnam, "for nought," "the fish ...
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Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... of men!"; for "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing" (Isaiah
41:29), "Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought," margin as the ...
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Vanities (14 Occurrences)
... of men!"; for "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing" (Isaiah
41:29), "Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought," margin as the ...
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Nothing (769 Occurrences)
... Version (British and American) has "none" (Exodus 23:26 Joel 2:3), "never" (Nehemiah
5:8), "not wherewith" (Proverbs 22:27), "vanity and nought" (Isaiah 41:29 ...
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Wages (52 Occurrences)
... jez, wa'-jiz (chinnam, maskoreth, pe`ullah, sakhar, sakhar; misthos, opsonion):
(1) Chinnam means "gratis," without cost or any advantage, for nought, or in ...
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Ill-founded (2 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his
arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. (See JPS). ...
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Arrogancy (16 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his
arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. (ASV JPS). ...
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Nourish (16 Occurrences)

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Remembered (120 Occurrences)
... Numbers 11:5 We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick ...
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Bible Concordance

Nought (104 Occurrences)

Mark 7:9 "Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!
(WEY)

Mark 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Luke 4:35 And Jesus did rebuke him, saying, 'Be silenced, and come forth out of him;' and the demon having cast him into the midst, came forth from him, having hurt him nought;
(YLT)

Luke 18:9 And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:
(ASV)

Luke 23:11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Acts 5:36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
(KJV)

Acts 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
(KJV)

Romans 9:6 But 'it is' not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
(ASV)

Romans 14:3 Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
(ASV)

Romans 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
(KJV ASV YLT)

1 Corinthians 1:19 For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."
(WEY ASV YLT)

1 Corinthians 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
(KJV WEY ASV)

1 Corinthians 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
(KJV ASV DBY)

1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
(ASV)

2 Corinthians 11:7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
(ASV)

Galatians 2:21 I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.
(ASV)

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;
(ASV)

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
(KJV ASV YLT)

Hebrews 2:14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
(ASV)

Hebrews 10:28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on 'the word of' two or three witnesses:
(ASV YLT)

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.
(ASV)

Revelation 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
(KJV)

Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
(KJV JPS ASV YLT)

Genesis 47:18 And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
(See JPS ASV)

Exodus 5:11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
(See JPS ASV)

Exodus 21:2 When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;
(YLT)

Exodus 21:11 and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.
(YLT)

Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
(See JPS ASV YLT)

Numbers 11:6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon.
(See JPS)

Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
(KJV JPS ASV)

Deuteronomy 28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
(See JPS ASV)

Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
(KJV)

1 Samuel 19:5 yea, he putteth his life in his hand, and smiteth the Philistine, and Jehovah worketh a great salvation for all Israel; thou hast seen, and dost rejoice, and why dost thou sin against innocent blood, to put David to death for nought?'
(YLT)

1 Samuel 25:31 that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord -- either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.'
(YLT)

2 Samuel 19:6 in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
(See JPS ASV)

2 Samuel 24:24 And the king saith unto Araunah, 'Nay, for I do surely buy from thee for a price, and I do not cause to ascend to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings for nought;' and David buyeth the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver,
(YLT)

2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
(See JPS)

1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But Jehovah made the heavens.
(See JPS YLT)

Nehemiah 4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Job 1:9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT RSV)

Job 2:3 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'
(YLT)

Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
(KJV)

Job 9:17 Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.
(YLT)

Job 13:4 And yet, ye 'are' forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
(YLT)

Job 14:18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
(KJV ASV DBY)

Job 20:20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.
(See JPS DBY)

Job 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT)

Job 35:15 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, Neither doth he greatly regard arrogance;
(See JPS)

Job 40:4 Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
(DBY)

Psalms 33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
(KJV JPS ASV RSV)

Psalms 39:6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
(See RSV)

Psalms 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
(KJV ASV DBY)

Psalms 88:16 Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:
(DBY)

Psalms 96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens.
(See JPS YLT)

Psalms 97:7 Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images, That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all ye gods.
(See JPS)

Psalms 112:10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
(See RSV)

Psalms 119:86 All thy commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
(See JPS)

Psalms 119:118 Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy statutes; For their deceit is falsehood.
(ASV DBY)

Proverbs 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
(KJV JPS ASV)

Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 11:7 At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 24:28 Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
(YLT)

Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Isaiah 10:4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 15:1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, 'and' brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, 'and' brought to nought.
(ASV)

Isaiah 16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
(ASV)

Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, 'that' he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.
(ASV)

Isaiah 23:9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.
(DBY)

Isaiah 28:19 As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.
(ASV)

Isaiah 29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Isaiah 34:12 Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.
(DBY)

Isaiah 40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 40:23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
(See JPS RSV)

Isaiah 41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Isaiah 41:24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT RSV)

Isaiah 41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
(See JPS ASV DBY YLT)

Isaiah 49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Isaiah 52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT)

Isaiah 52:4 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'To Egypt My people went down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur -- for nought he hath oppressed it.
(YLT)

Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT)

Jeremiah 2:5 thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
(See JPS)

Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Jeremiah 16:19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.
(See JPS ASV RSV)

Jeremiah 22:13 Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.
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Jeremiah 47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
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Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith Jehovah, that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing.
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Jeremiah 51:58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
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Lamentations 1:15 The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
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Ezekiel 6:10 And they have known that I 'am' Jehovah, Not for nought have I spoken to do to them this evil.
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Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them'shall remain , nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.
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Ezekiel 12:22 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
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Ezekiel 14:23 And they have comforted you, for ye see their way and their doings, and ye have known that not for nought have I done all that which I have done in her -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'
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Ezekiel 18:7 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
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Ezekiel 30:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
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Daniel 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
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Hosea 4:2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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Hosea 12:11 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
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