Strong's Hebrew · H2219

זָרָה

zârâh · zaw-raw'

cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.

Definition

to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow

Derivation

a primitive root (compare H2114 (זוּר));

Appears 39 times in Scripture

Ruth 3:2

Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

Malachi 2:3

Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

Psalms 44:11

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

Ezekiel 6:5

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Exodus 32:20

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

Job 18:15

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

1 Kings 14:15

For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

Psalms 106:27

to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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