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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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.
Read in context →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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pûwts · poots
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:7Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:14
Open full H6327 profile →zârâh · zaw-raw'
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
Strong's KJV usage: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:33Strong's last: Zechariah 1:21
Open full H2219 profile →bâzar · baw-zar'
to disperse
Strong's KJV usage: scatter.
Strong's first: Psalms 68:30Strong's last: Daniel 11:24
Open full H967 profile →zâraq · zaw-rak'
to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles)
Strong's KJV usage: be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew.
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 10:2
Open full H2236 profile →bᵉdar · bed-ar'
to scatter
Strong's KJV usage: scatter.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:14Strong's last: Daniel 4:14
Open full H921 profile →nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
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).
Strong's first: Psalms 59:11Strong's last: Psalms 59:11
Open full H5128 profile →nâphats · naw-fats'
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.
Strong's first: Daniel 12:7Strong's last: Daniel 12:7
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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.
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.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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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.
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