Confound
Bible Usage:
- confound used 5 times.
- confounded used 50 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 11:7
- Last Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:27
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
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.
CONFOUNDED, participle passive
1. Mixed or blended in disorder; perplexed; abashed; dismayed; put to shame and silence; astonished.
2. Enormous; as a confounded tory. [Vulgar.]
CONFOUNDEDLY, adverb Enormously; greatly; shamefully; as, he was confoundedly avaricious. [A low word.]
CONFOUNDEDNESS, noun The state of being confounded.
CONFOUNDER, noun One who confounds; one who disturbs the mind, perplexes, refutes, frustrates and puts to shame or silence; one who terrifies.
CONFOUNDING, participle present tense Mixing and blending; putting into disorder; perplexing; disturbing the mind; abashing, and putting to shame and silence; astonishing.
Bible Usage:
- confound used 5 times.
- confounded used 50 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 11:7
- Last Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:27
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: