Dictionaries :: Scatter

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Scatter:

is used in Mat 12:30; Luk 11:23; Jhn 10:12; 16:32; 2Cr 9:9, RV.
See DISPERSE, No. 2.

Scatter:

"to scatter abroad," is rendered "to scatter" in Mat 25:24, 26, RV (AV, "strawed"); 26:31; Mar 14:27; Luk 1:51; Jhn 11:52; Act 5:37, RV.
See DISPERSE, No. 3.

Scatter:

"to scatter abroad" (dia, "throughout," speiro, "to sow seed"), is used in Act 8:1, 4; 11:19, all of the church in Jerusalem "scattered" through persecution; the word in general is suggestive of the effects of the "scattering" in the sowing of the spiritual seed of the Word of life.
See DISPERSE, No. 4.

Scatter:

"to throw, cast, hurl, to be cast down, prostrate," is used in Mat 9:36 of people who were "scattered" as sheep without a shepherd.
See CAST, No. 2, THROW.

Scatter:

"to winnow" (likmos, "a winnowing fan"), is rendered "will scatter... as dust" in Mat 21:44; Luk 20:18, RV (AV, "will grind... to powder").
See GRIND, Note.

Scatter:

"to dissolve," is translated "scattered" in Act 5:36, AV; see DISPERSE, No. 1.

Scatter:

"a dispersion," is rendered "scattered abroad" in Jam 1:1, AV; "scattered" in 1Pe 1:1, AV; see DISPERSION, B.