To scatter
פּוּץStrong’s H6327puts
Appears in 66 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Puts is the Hebrew word usually translated “were scattered”, “scatter” and “scatter them”. It appears in 66 verses of the Old Testament.
“Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- To scatter, be dispersed, be scattered(Qal) to be dispersed, be scattered · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to scatter · Hithpael) scatter
- N.m.
- (Qal) to flow, overflow
- To break(Polel) to shatter · (Pilpel) to dash to pieces
How it's translated
- they were scattered 5
- and i will scatter 4
- and i will scatter them 3
- scattered 3
- you have been scattered 3
- and it scattered 2
- and he will scatter 2
- and they were scattered 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 18
- Jeremiah 10
- Genesis 5
- Job 5
- Deuteronomy 3
- 1 Samuel 3
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 13:7In contextAwake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
- Genesis 10:18And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
- Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Genesis 11:9Therefore 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.
- Genesis 49:7Cursed 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.
All 66 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פּוּץ puts · to scatter
1) to scatter, be dispersed, be scattered 1a) (Qal) to be dispersed, be scattered 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be scattered 1b2) to be spread abroad 1c) (Hiphil) to scatter 1d) Hithpael) scatter
מֵפִיץ mephits · scatterer
n.m. scatterer
פּוּץ puts · to flow
(Qal) to flow, overflow
פָּצַץ patsats · to shatter
1) to break 1a) (Polel) to shatter 1b) (Pilpel) to dash to pieces
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.