Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; void; nugatory; of no effect. 2. (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. 3. (v. t.) To make null; to nullify; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FRUSTRATE frus'-trat (parar; atheteo): "Frustrate" (from frustra, "vain") is the translation of parar, "to break," "to make void," "to bring to nothing" (Ezra 4:5), "to frustrate their purpose" (Isaiah 44:25, "that frustrateth the signs of the liars"); of atheteo, "to displace," "to reject or make void or null": Galatians 2:21, "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 APC 1Macc 11:36, "Nothing hereof shall be revoked," the Revised Version (British and American) "annulled" (atheteo). Revised Version has "frustrateth" for "disappointeth" (Job 5:12, parar). The adjective appears (APC 2Esdras 10:34), "frustrate of my hope" (APC Judith 11:11, "frustrate of his purpose" (apraktos)). W. L. Walker

Multi-Version Concordance Frustrate (7 Occurrences) 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 NIV) Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (KJV WBS) 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 NIV) Ezra 4:5 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Nehemiah 4:15 And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work; (YLT NAS RSV NIV) Psalms 14:6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge. (WEB NIV) Isaiah 14:27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? (DBY NAS)