Strong's Hebrew · H6327
פּוּץ
pûwts · poots
break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Definition
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 67 times in Scripture
“So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.”
“I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.””
“He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.”
“Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’”
““Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.””
“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.”
“Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.”
“So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.”
“the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,”
“That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.”
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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).