International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Frustrate

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Frustrate


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frus´trāt (פרר, pārar; ἀθετέω, athetéō): “Frustrate” (from frustra, “vain”) is the translation of pārar, “to break,” “to make void,” “to bring to nothing” (), “to frustrate their purpose” (, “that frustrateth the signs of the liars”); of atheteō, “to displace,” “to reject or make void or null”: , “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 1 Macc 11:36, “Nothing hereof shall be revoked,” the Revised Version (British and American) “annulled” (atheteō).

Revised Version has “frustrateth” for “disappointeth” (, pārar).

The adjective appears (2 Esdras 10:34), “frustrate of my hope” (Judith 11:11, “frustrate of his purpose” (ápraktos').