36 occurrences

'Scatter' in the Bible

“Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;And their wrath, for it is cruel.I will disperse them in Jacob,And scatter them in Israel.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyFierce MenAngry People

You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

“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.

Verse ConceptsHallowed

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

Verse ConceptsRemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelUnknown GodsDifferent GodsWood And Stone

“For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

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

Remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples;

Verse ConceptsOutsidersServants Of The LordUnfaithfulness, To GodGod Scattering Israel

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,O Lord, our shield.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesPeople Remembering

You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain;You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

Verse ConceptsArmsRedemption, In OtStrength, DivineArm Of GodScattering The Peoples

And that He would cast their seed among the nationsAnd scatter them in the lands.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

Flash forth lightning and scatter them;Send out Your arrows and confuse them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfLightningGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrows

Does he not level its surfaceAnd sow dill and scatter cumminAnd plant wheat in rows,Barley in its place and rye within its area?

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesCummin

And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

Verse ConceptsGoldMenstruationOverlaid With SilverAbandoning IdolsUnclean Things

“You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,And the storm will scatter them;But you will rejoice in the Lord,You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWinnowingDirection

I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.”

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelNot Knowing PeopleGod Will Kill His People

“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting strawTo the desert wind.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theChaffGod Scattering Israel

‘Like an east wind I will scatter themBefore the enemy;I will show them My back and not My faceIn the day of their calamity.’”

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

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentOffenceRidicule, Nature OfMade A Horror

“Their camels will become plunder,And their many cattle for booty,And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair;And I will bring their disaster from every side,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLargenessScattering The PeoplesCutting Hair

‘I will bring upon Elam the four windsFrom the four ends of heaven,And will scatter them to all these winds;And there will be no nationTo which the outcasts of Elam will not go.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesFour WindsExiled Foreigners

One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

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

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismGod Scattering IsraelSurvivors ThreatenedFathers And SonsDadsFathers And Daughters

One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesRemnantPestilenceOne ThirdThings StrippedFamine Killing

I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Verse ConceptsBonesFate Of IdolatersIn Front

And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered in my sight.

Verse ConceptsLinenWheelsCherubim

I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will draw out a sword after them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelThings StrippedNo HelpGod's Sword

So they will know that I am the Lord when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelJudgement In The WildernessGod Swearing Harm

I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessdispersion, theGod Scattering IsraelBeing Cleansed From Sin

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

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

‘He shouted out and spoke as follows:Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit;Let the beasts flee from under itAnd the birds from its branches.

Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThings StrippedFoliageBearing Fruit

You pierced with his own spearsThe head of his throngs.They stormed in to scatter us;Their exultation was like thoseWho devour the oppressed in secret.

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

I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it.”

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

“When I scatter them among the peoples,They will remember Me in far countries,And they with their children will live and come back.

Verse ConceptsRemnantGod Scattering IsraelReturning to their landFar From HereLiving OnBelievers Remembering God

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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