KJV dictionary & concordance
1. To confuse or disorder so that understanding fails. 2. To put to shame, dismay, or frustrate.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 11:7
Complete exact-word concordance
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cōfound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth.
1611 marginal noteThat is, Confusion.
¶ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
¶ Thou therefore gird vp thy loynes, and arise and speake vnto them all that I commaund thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
1611 marginal noteOr, breake to pieces.
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;
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weake things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty:
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Historical English dictionary sources
To overthrow, destroy, mingle together, or disorder.
To put to confusion; to dismay; to destroy.
