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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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.
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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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