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# confound

«confound» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to confuse them so badly that they cannot think clearly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (confounds, confounded, confounding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To confound someone is to confuse them so badly that they cannot think clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#m1)

2) To confound a plan is to defeat it or spoil it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#m2)

3) (exclamation) «Confound it!» is an old way of saying «Blast it!» when something goes wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: At Babel God confounded the language of the people so they could no longer understand one another. Interpretation: The story is read as explaining why humans speak many languages, and as a warning against pride. The name Babel is linked to the Hebrew word for mixing. In the primary lessons: in the lessons, to mix up the innocent with the guilty, or to baffle and beat an enemy by a trick or fog

### examples

- Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' (Torah GEN.11.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#x1)
- Therefore was 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. (Torah GEN.11.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#x2)
- The puzzle began to confound me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#x3)
- The magician's fog was meant to confound the soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#x4)
- Do not confound the innocent with the guilty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#x5)
- «Confound it!» cried the farmer when his cart stuck in the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/#x6)

### note

nothing changes a count, but if you confound two numbers in a sum, the answer will be wrong.

### In the corpora

- [Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.285/)
- [They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1018/)
- [O Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1019/)
- [We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.289/)
- [They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.137/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confound» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/confound/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.