Confound (Hastings' Dictionary)

This vb. is used in three senses. 1. l)i stray, shatter, Jer 1" 'be not dismayed at their faces, lest I c. thee before them.' The Geneva and Bishops' Bibles have ' destroy ' here, and it is possible that AV chose a milder word on jiurpose, as RV has a still milder ' lest I dismay thee before them'; but the Heb. (!iri~S!-[3, nnn in hi[)h.) has the meaning of 'shatter,' as in Is 9* ' the yoke of his burden . . thou hast broken ' (RV) ; and the Eng. word has this mean- ing also, as Milton, Par.

Lost, ii. 380 — ' ^\Tience, But from the author of all ill, could spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of Mankind in one rooty 2. Put to shnme. This is the most frequent mean- ing. RV often changes ' c"* ' into ' ashamed,' but Amer. RV prefers 'put to shame.' Earlier ver- sions sometimes had 'c"'' wliere AV has ' ashamed,' as 2 S 10" Douay, ' The men were confounded very fowly, and David commanded them, Tary in Jeridio, til your beard be growen.' 3. Throw into confu.'

don (stronger than mod. confiute. Dr. Murray suggests the colloq. dumfound), as Gn II'-" (see Tongues, Confusion of), 2 Mac 13=^ 14^ 'he was much c^ in himself ; Ac 2 9^' (criryx^u, cf. Ac igs* 21" ' was in confusion ' RV). J. Hastings.