To scatter
בְּדַרStrong’s H6504bedar (be-dar)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bedar is the Hebrew word usually translated “separate”, “separated” and “separating”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.”
Meaning
- (Pael) to scatter
How it's translated
- separate 3
- they separated 2
- and they separated 2
- separating 2
- divided 1
- separated 1
- they will separate 1
- he separated 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 8
- Proverbs 5
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 10:5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Genesis 13:9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
- Genesis 13:11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 13:14And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
- Genesis 25:23And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּדַר bedar · to scatter
(Pael) to scatter Aramaic of pa.rad (פָּרַד "to separate" H6504)
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.