Topic
Frustrate
7 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Ezra 4:5ISBE
And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Job 5:12ISBE
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- Isaiah 44:25ISBE
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
- Judith 11:11ISBE
And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:
- 1 Maccabees 11:36ISBE
And nothing hereof shall be revoked from this time forth for ever.
- 2 Esdras 10:34ISBE
Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.
- Galatians 2:21ISBE
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
frus'-trat (parar; atheteo): "Frustrate" (from frustra, "vain") is the translation of parar, "to break," "to make void," "to bring to nothing" (Ezr 4:5), "to frustrate their purpose" (Isa 44:25, "that frustrateth the signs of the liars"); of atheteo, "to displace," "to reject or make void or null": Ga 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
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.