Strong's Hebrew · H6327

H6327 pûwts

פּוּץ

poots

to scatter

pûwts appears 67 times in Scripture, including Genesis 10:18 and Exodus 5:12. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)

In the King James Version

break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 67 times in Scripture

Exodus 5:12

“So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.”

Jeremiah 9:16

“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.””

Habakkuk 3:6

“He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.”

Ezekiel 11:16

“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.’”

Genesis 11:4

““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.””

Zechariah 13:7

“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.”

Genesis 49:7

“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.”

Genesis 11:8

“So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.”

Genesis 10:18

“the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,”

Genesis 11:9

“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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