To break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate , frustrate
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H6565 is a Hebrew verb for breaking, violating, frustrating, thwarting, annulling, or bringing something to nothing. Deuteronomy 31:16 warns that Israel will forsake the Lord and break His covenant after entering the land, so the verb can name violated relationship and obligation.
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H6565 is a Hebrew verb for breaking, violating, frustrating, thwarting, annulling, or bringing something to nothing. Deuteronomy 31:16 warns that Israel will forsake the Lord and break His covenant after entering the land, so the verb can name violated relationship and obligation.
The BSB source-word alignment has 50 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include and break (5), . . . (3), break (2), by breaking (2), he nullifies (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 17:14. Its strongest book concentrations include Numbers (8), Isaiah (7), Ezekiel (5), Jeremiah (5).
H6565 is a Hebrew verb for breaking, violating, frustrating, thwarting, annulling, or bringing something to nothing. Deuteronomy 31:16 warns that Israel will forsake the Lord and break His covenant after entering the land, so the verb can name violated relationship and obligation. Isaiah 14:27 asks who can thwart what the Lord of Hosts has purposed, contrasting human limitation with God's sovereign purpose.
Nehemiah 4:15 says God frustrated the enemies' scheme against the wall builders, allowing the people to return to their work. Other uses concern failed plans, revoked treaties, broken commands, canceled counsel, and material things split apart. H6565 opens covenant fidelity, human planning, opposition, and divine purpose. It corrects both careless promise-breaking and spiritual claims that every frustrated human plan proves either divine punishment or guaranteed divine redirection.
H6565 describes making an arrangement, plan, command, or object ineffective or broken. It may concern covenant violation, a thwarted scheme, annulled counsel, failed planning, or physical splitting. The object and agent establish the moral meaning.
And the Lord said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
God warns Moses that Israel will forsake Him and break the covenant after entering the promised land.
The Lord of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
The prophet declares that no creature can thwart the purpose or turn back the outstretched hand of the Lord of Hosts.
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
God frustrates the enemies' scheme after the wall builders learn of it, organize protection, and return to their work.
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Hebrew word. Breaking covenants, promises, or divine plans—rendering them null, void, and powerless through violation.
Breaking covenants, promises, or divine plans—rendering them null, void, and powerless through violation.
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate BDB: split Usage: × any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, × clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, × utterly, make void.
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פָּרַר is a primitive root - no further derivation.
The term underscores divine sovereignty over hostile schemes, reinforcing trust in God’s active protection.Nehemiah 4:15-23
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H6565 places human responsibility and divine freedom beside each other. Israel's covenant-breaking is not an unfortunate scheduling failure; it is relational betrayal after grace, promise, and instruction. Nehemiah's opponents form a harmful scheme that is frustrated through discovery, prayer, watchfulness, and organized work. Isaiah declares that God's purpose cannot be overruled by imperial power.
These texts do not make every ministry plan equivalent to God's declared purpose. Leaders sometimes shield poor judgment by saying no one can thwart what God has ordained, even when the plan lacks transparency, consent, resources, or wise counsel. Others call any obstacle spiritual warfare and ignore feedback. H6565 calls communities to keep promises, test plans, protect people from hostile schemes, and admit when a proposal should end.
God's faithfulness provides hope when human commitments fail, but it does not erase consequences. Repair may require confession, restitution, changed agreements, patient trust-building, and appropriate accountability for those who broke faith.
Deut.31.16
H6565 is a verb often used for causing something to fail or become ineffective. Its objects include covenants, commandments, plans, counsel, vows, treaties, and physical structures, producing English renderings such as break, frustrate, annul, thwart, revoke, and split.
The New Testament presents God's saving purpose fulfilled in Christ while repeatedly commanding truthful promises, tested prophecy, wise planning, and mutual accountability. Human opposition cannot defeat the gospel, yet no particular leader's strategy is thereby infallible.