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Dispersion

διασποράStrong’s G1290

diaspora

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Diaspora is the Greek word usually translated “dispersion”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?”
John 7:35 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “dispersion”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • dispersion 2
  • of dispersion 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • John 1
  • James 1
  • 1 Peter 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

διασπορά diaspora · dispersion

δια-σπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ (διασπείρω), [in LXX of Israelites dispersed and exiled in foreign lands, as Deu.28:25 (זַעֲוָה) Deu.30:4 (נָדַח ni.), Isa.49:6 (נער); by meton., of the exiles themselves (as Psa.147:2, 2Ma.1:27) ;] a dispersion: δ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, Jhn.7:35; metaphorically, of Christians (DB, iii, 782 f.), Jas.1:1, 1Pe.1:1 (see Hort, in ll).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “dispersion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DISPERSION, noun

  1. The act of scattering.
  2. The state of being scattered, or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews, in their dispersion retain their rites and ceremonies.
  3. By way of eminence, the scattering or separation of the human family, at the building of Babel.
  4. In optics, the divergency of the rays of light, or rather the separation of the different colored rays, in refraction, arising from their different refrangibilities.
All definitions
  1. In medicine and surgery, the removing of inflammation from a part, and restoring it to its natural state.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.