Genesis 11:9
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.
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Zechariah 1:21
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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פּוּץ
pûwts · poots
16 times translated as this KJV form69 total Strong's occurrences
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Strong's KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:7Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:14
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zârâh · zaw-raw'
12 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
Strong's KJV usage: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:33Strong's last: Zechariah 1:21
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bâzar · baw-zar'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to disperse
Strong's KJV usage: scatter.
Strong's first: Psalms 68:30Strong's last: Daniel 11:24
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zâraq · zaw-rak'
2 times translated as this KJV form35 total Strong's occurrences
to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles)
Strong's KJV usage: be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 10:2
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bᵉdar · bed-ar'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to scatter
Strong's KJV usage: scatter.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:14Strong's last: Daniel 4:14
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nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Strong's KJV usage: continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 59:11Strong's last: Psalms 59:11
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nâphats · naw-fats'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
to dash to pieces, or scatter
Strong's KJV usage: be beaten in sunder, break (in pieces), broken, dash (in pieces), cause to be discharged, dispersed, be overspread, scatter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 12:7Strong's last: Daniel 12:7
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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.
H6327
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
H2219
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
H2219
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
H6327
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
H6327
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
no direct Strong's tag
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
H2219
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
no direct Strong's tag
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
H5128
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
H967
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
H2219
To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
H6327
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
H2236
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
H6327
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
H6327
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
H6327
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
H6327
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
H6327
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
H2219
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
H2219
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
H2219
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
H2219
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
H2219
A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
H2219
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
English meaning and historical usage.
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scatter
SCAT'TER, verb transitive [Latin scateo, discutio; Gr. to scatter to discuss. This word may be formed on the root of discutio. The primary sense is to drive or throw.]
1. To disperse; to dissipate; to separate or remove things to a distance from each other.
From thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:9.
I will scatter you among the heathen. Leviticus 26:33.
2. To throw loosely about; to sprinkle; as, to scatter seed in sowing.
Teach the glad hours to scatter as they fly, soft quiet, gentle love and endless joy.
3. To spread or set thinly.
Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, their scatter'd cottages, and ample plains.
SCAT'TER, verb intransitive
1. To be dispersed or dissipated. The clouds scatter after a storm.
2. To be liberal to the poor; to be charitable. Proverbs 11:24.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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