Thwart
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Thwart (5 Occurrences)

Acts 11:17 "If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?" (WEY)

1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." (See RSV)

2 Samuel 15:34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom,'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (See NAS)

2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom. (See NAS)

Isaiah 14:27 For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back? (See NIV)

Thesaurus
Thwart (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) To block or prevent; to frustrate; as, to thwart
an attempted change; to thwart a rebellion. ...Thwart (5 Occurrences). ...
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Countervail (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To offset; to act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart
or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to ...
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Spite (28 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate,
annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. ...
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Thwarted (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Thwart. Multi-Version Concordance
Thwarted (3 Occurrences). Job 5:13 He takes the wise in ...
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Tryphon
... The successes of the Jewish leaders awakened the jealousy and suspicion of Tryphon,
who determined to thwart the further plans of Jonathan and to remove him as ...
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Traverse (5 Occurrences)
... 14. (v.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross. 15. (v.) To cross by way of opposition;
to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. 16. ...
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Rub (1 Occurrence)
... 5. (vt) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with
up or over; as, to rub up silver. 6. (vt) To hinder; to cross; to thwart. ...
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Discomfit (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To thwart the plans of; frustrate; disconcert.
2. (vt) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to ...
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Prevent (32 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To be beforehand with; to anticipate. 3. (vt) To intercept; to hinder; to
frustrate; to stop; to thwart. 4. (vi) To come before the usual time. Int. ...
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Arah (3 Occurrences)
... He is sometimes identified with Arah of Nehemiah 6:18 whose grand-daughter became
the wife of Tobiah, the Ammonite who tried to thwart Nehemiah in rebuilding ...
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Greek
1143. dakno -- to bite
... bite. A prolonged form of a primary root; to bite, ie (figuratively) thwart -- bite.
(daknete) -- 1 Occurrence. << 1142, 1143. dakno. 1144 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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4570. sbennumi -- to quench
... sbennumi Phonetic Spelling: (sben'-noo-mee) Short Definition: I extinguish, suppress
Definition: (a) I extinguish, quench, (b) I suppress, thwart. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v.) To block or prevent; to frustrate; as, to thwart an attempted change; to thwart a rebellion.

2. (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

3. (a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.

4. (prep.) Across; athwart.

5. (n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

6. (v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.

7. (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.

8. (v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.

9. (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.

Strong's Hebrew
6565a. parar -- to break, frustrate
... 1), frustrate (2), frustrated (2), frustrates (1), indeed annuls (2), ineffective
(1), made my void (1), nullifies (1), shattered (1), thwart (2), thwarted (1 ...
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