Dispersion
תְּפוֹצָהStrong’s H8600tephotsah (te-pho-tsah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tephotsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “dispersions your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.”
Meaning
- Dispersion
How it's translated
- and dispersions your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
תְּפוֹצָה tephotsah · dispersion
dispersion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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
- The act of scattering.
- The state of being scattered, or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews, in their dispersion retain their rites and ceremonies.
- By way of eminence, the scattering or separation of the human family, at the building of Babel.
- 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
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.