38 occurrences

'Scatter' in the Bible

Therefore 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.

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 I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities 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 hallowed.

Verse ConceptsHallowed

And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

Verse ConceptsRemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelUnknown GodsDifferent GodsWood And Stone

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD 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 transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

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

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Verse ConceptsBullsCalvesStretching OutWarfare, Nature OfScattering The PeoplesWild Beasts Subdued

To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfLightningGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrows

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesCummin

Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWinnowingDirection

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a 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 shew 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 into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

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

Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in 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 in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into 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 I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesRemnantPestilenceOne ThirdThings StrippedFamine Killing

And I will lay the dead carcases 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 with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, 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 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 the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelJudgement In The WildernessGod Swearing Harm

And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessdispersion, theGod Scattering IsraelBeing Cleansed From Sin

And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate 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 among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

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

Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThings StrippedFoliageBearing Fruit

He shall enter peaceably 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 the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansThree And A Half YearsLeft HandsLifting HandsSwearing ByUnable To Do Other Things

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out 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 have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

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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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