To scatter
פָּזַרStrong’s H6340pazar (pa-zar)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pazar is the Hebrew word usually translated “scattered”, “scatters” and “has scattered”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.”
Meaning
- To scatter, disperse(Qal) · (Niphal) to be scattered · (Piel) to scatter · (Pual) to be scattered
How it's translated
- scattered 2
- he scatters 2
- he has scattered 1
- you scattered 1
- they have been scattered 1
- scatters 1
- and you have scattered 1
- they have scattered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 2
- Esther 1
- Proverbs 1
- Joel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 53:5There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
- Psalms 89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
- Psalms 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
- Psalms 141:7Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- Psalms 147:16He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
- Proverbs 11:24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּזַר pazar · to scatter
1) to scatter, disperse 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to scatter 1a2) scattered (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be scattered 1c) (Piel) to scatter 1d) (Pual) to be scattered
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.