To scatter
זָרַקStrong’s H2236zaraq (za-raq)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zaraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “sprinkled”, “sprinkle” and “sprinkled it”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.”
Meaning
- To scatter, sprinkle, toss, throw, scatter abundantly, strew(Qal) to scatter, sprinkle, toss · (Pual) to be sprinkled
How it's translated
- and he sprinkled 6
- and they will sprinkle 5
- and they sprinkled 5
- and you will sprinkle 2
- and he sprinkled it 2
- you will sprinkle 2
- and he will sprinkle it 1
- he sprinkled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 12
- Exodus 6
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Numbers 3
- Ezekiel 3
- 2 Kings 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:10And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
- Exodus 24:6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- Exodus 24:8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Exodus 29:16And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
- Exodus 29:20Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
- Leviticus 1:5And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Hebrew dictionary
זָרַק zaraq · to scatter
1) to scatter, sprinkle, toss, throw, scatter abundantly, strew 1a) (Qal) to scatter, sprinkle, toss 1b) (Pual) to be sprinkled
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scatter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
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.]
- 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
- To throw loosely about; to sprinkle; as, to scatter seed in sowing.
- To spread or set thinly.
All definitions and other forms of “scatter”
SCAT'TER, verb intransitive
- To be dispersed or dissipated.
- To be liberal to the poor; to be charitable. Proverbs 11:24
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.