'Abroad' in the Bible

and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

“Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of the midst of the blaze, for they are holy; and you scatter the burning coals abroad.

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,And he has no name abroad.

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;Then You planted them;You afflicted the peoples,Then You spread them abroad.

Bless our God, O peoples,And sound His praise abroad,

You shed abroad a plentiful rain, O God;You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.

Should your springs be dispersed abroad,Streams of water in the streets?

“Awake, O north wind,And come, wind of the south;Make my garden breathe out fragrance,Let its spices be wafted abroad.May my beloved come into his gardenAnd eat its choice fruits!”

“For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.And your descendants will possess nationsAnd will resettle the desolate cities.

Because you push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

as it is written,“He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor,His righteousness endures forever.”

James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.