Topic
Nought
26 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 29:15ISBE
¶ And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
- Exodus 5:11ISBE
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- Deuteronomy 28:32ISBE
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 long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
- Deuteronomy 28:63ISBE
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.
- Job 8:22ISBE
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
- Job 14:18ISBE
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
- Psalms 33:10ISBE
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
- Isaiah 15:1ISBE
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
- Isaiah 16:4ISBE
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
- Isaiah 28:19ISBE
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
- Isaiah 41:24ISBE
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- Isaiah 49:4ISBE
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.
Show 14 more
- Amos 5:5 ISBE
- 1 Esdras 1:56 ISBE
- 2 Esdras 2:33 ISBE
- 2 Esdras 8:59 ISBE
- Acts 5:36 ISBE
- Acts 5:38 ISBE
- Acts 19:27 ISBE
- Romans 9:6 ISBE
- Romans 14:3 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 1:19 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 1:28 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 2:6 ISBE
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8 ISBE
- Revelation 18:17 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 26 references
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" (Ge 29:15), and of various other words occurring once only, e.g. 'awen, "vanity" (Am 5:5); tohu, "vacancy," "ruin" (Isa 49:4); 'epha`, "nothing" (Isa 41:24); nabhel, "to fade" (Job 14:18, margin "fadeth away"); pur, "to make void" (Ps 33:10); katargeo, "to make without effect" (1Co 1:28; 2:6); oudeis, "not even one" (Ac 5:36); apelegmos, "refutation" (Ac 19:27, the Revised Version (British and American) "come into disrepute"); dorean, "without payment" (2Th 3:8, the Revised Version (British and American) "for nought"); eremoo, "to desolate" (Re 18:17, the Revised Version (British and American) "made desolate"); kataluo, "to loose down" (Ac 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" (De 28:63); for "come to nought" (Job 8:22), "be no more"; "nought" for "not ought" (Ex 5:11), for "no might" (De 28:32); for "brought to silence," twice (Isa 15:1), "brought to nought"; the American Standard Revised Version "bring to nought" (1Co 1:19) for "bring to nothing" (the English Revised Version "reject"); "nought but terror" (Isa 28:19) for "a vexation only"; "brought to nought" (Isa 16:4) for "is at an end"; "come to nought" for "taken none effect" (Ro 9:6); "set at nought" for "despise" (Ro 14:3).
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.