Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Confound
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1 Corinthians 1:27
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
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καταισχύνω
kataischýnō · kat-ahee-skhoo'-no
2 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to shame down, i.e. disgrace or (by implication) put to the blush
Strong's KJV usage: :--confound, dishonour, (be a-, make a-)shame(-d).
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Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 1:27Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 1:27
Open full G2617 profile →בָּלַל
bâlal · baw-lal'
2 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; to fodder
Strong's KJV usage: anoint, confound, × fade, mingle, mix (self), give provender, temper.
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Strong's first: Genesis 11:7Strong's last: Genesis 11:9
Open full H1101 profile →חָתַת
châthath · khaw-thath'
1 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear
Strong's KJV usage: abolish, affright, be (make) afraid, amaze, beat down, discourage, (cause to) dismay, go down, scare, terrify.
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Strong's first: Jeremiah 1:17Strong's last: Jeremiah 1:17
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But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
G2617
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
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confound
CONFOUND, verb transitive [Latin , to pour out. Literally, to pour or throw together.]
1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished.
2. To throw into disorder.
Let us go down, and there confound their language. Genesis 11:7.
3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another.
A fluid body and a wetting liquor, because they agree in many things, are wont to be confounded.
Men may confound ideas with words.
4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words.
Men may confound each other by unintelligible terms or wrong application of words.
5. To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed.
Be thou confounde and ber thy shame. Ezekiel 16:52.
Saul confounded the Jews at Damascus. Acts 9:22.
6. To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupify with amazement.
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood a while as mute confounded what to say.
The multitude came together and were confounded. Acts 2:6.
7. To destroy; to overthrow.
So deep a malice to confound the race of mankind in one root.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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