38 occurrences

'Scatter' in the Bible

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfScattering The PeoplesLanguages SeparatedLanguage

Cursed 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.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyFierce MenAngry People

And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are holy,

Verse ConceptsHallowed

And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

Verse ConceptsRemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelUnknown GodsDifferent GodsWood And Stone

I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

Verse ConceptsFalse Godsdispersion, theReedsRootsGod Scattering IsraelGod Beating PeopleGod ShakingBeyond The EuphratesServing Asherah

Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:

Verse ConceptsOutsidersServants Of The LordUnfaithfulness, To GodGod Scattering Israel

Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesPeople Remembering

And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfLightningGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrows

When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesCummin

Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it.

Verse ConceptsGrindingHorsesSeedCartsFarmingprocesscrushes

Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWinnowingDirection

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelNot Knowing PeopleGod Will Kill His People

Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theChaffGod Scattering Israel

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodeastGod Scattering IsraelTurning One's BackOut Of The EastThe East Wind

And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners of their hair cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsLargenessScattering The PeoplesCutting Hair

And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesFour WindsExiled Foreigners

A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleOne ThirdThings StrippedBurning JerusalemAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldOther References To Hair

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismGod Scattering IsraelSurvivors ThreatenedFathers And SonsDadsFathers And Daughters

A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and a third part I will scatter unto all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesRemnantPestilenceOne ThirdThings StrippedFamine Killing

And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Verse ConceptsBonesFate Of IdolatersIn Front

And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels , even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

Verse ConceptsLinenWheelsCherubim

And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelThings StrippedNo HelpGod's Sword

And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelJudgement In The WildernessGod Swearing Harm

And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessdispersion, theGod Scattering IsraelBeing Cleansed From Sin

And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThings StrippedFoliageBearing Fruit

In time of security shall he come even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yea, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

Verse ConceptsPoor, The Wicked Response ToActing In SecretNot Helping The PoorRejoicing In Evil

Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Verse ConceptsWhirlwindsGod Scattering IsraelLand Becoming EmptyNot Knowing People

Bible Theasaurus

Dispel (1 instance)
Disperse (14 instances)
Dissipate (1 instance)
Scatter (87 instances)
Scattering (27 instances)
Spread (323 instances)
Sprinkle (39 instances)
Strewing (2 instances)

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