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Lexicon :: Strong's G1290 - diaspora

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διασπορά
Transliteration
diaspora (Key)
Pronunciation
dee-as-por-ah'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 2:98,156

Strong’s Definitions

διασπορά diasporá, dee-as-por-ah'; from G1289; dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries:—(which are) scattered (abroad).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G1290 in the following manner: dispersed (1x), scatter abroad (1x), scattered (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G1290 in the following manner: dispersed (1x), scatter abroad (1x), scattered (1x).
  1. a scattering, dispersion

    1. of Israelites dispersed among foreign nations

    2. of the Christians scattered abroad among the Gentiles

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
διασπορά diasporá, dee-as-por-ah'; from G1289; dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries:—(which are) scattered (abroad).
STRONGS G1290:
διασπορά, -ᾶς, , (διασπείρω, cf. such words as ἀγορά, διαφθορά), (Vulg. dispersio), a scattering, dispersion: ἀτομων, opposed to σύμμιξις κ. παράζευξις, Plutarch, mor., p. 1105 a.; in the Sept. used of the Israelites dispersed among foreign nations, Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 30:4; especially of their Babylonian exile, Jeremiah 41:17 (Jer. 34:17); Isaiah 49:6; Judith 5:19; abstract for concrete of the exiles themselves, Psalm 146:2 (Ps. 147:2) (equivalent to (נִדְחִים, expelled, outcasts); 2 Macc. 1:27; εἰς τ. διασπορὰν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, unto those dispersed among the Greeks [Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 a.], John 7:35. Transferred to Christians [i. e. Jewish Christians (?)] scattered abroad among the Gentiles: James 1:1 (ἐν τῇ διασπορᾷ, namely, οὖσι); παρεπίδημοι διασπορᾶς Πόντου, sojourners far away from home, in Pontus, 1 Peter 1:1 (see παρεπίδημος). [BB. DD. under the word Dispersion; especially Schürer, N. T. Zeitgeseh. § 31.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
28:25; 30:4
Psalms
146:2; 147:2
Isaiah
49:6
Jeremiah
34:17; 41:17
John
7:35
James
1:1
1 Peter
1:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1290 matches the Greek διασπορά (diaspora),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 -

“The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:4 -

“Even if your exiles are at the farthest horizon, he will gather you and bring you back from there.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:9 -

“But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon,[fn] I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:2 -

The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem;

he gathers Israel’s exiled people.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 -

he says,

“It is not enough for you to be my servant

raising up the tribes of Jacob

and restoring the protected ones of Israel.

I will also make you a light for the nations,

to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:7 -

“I scattered them with a winnowing fork

at the city gates of the land.

I made them childless; I destroyed my people.

They would not turn from their ways.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 -

“Therefore, this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming freedom, each for his fellow Hebrew and for his neighbor. I hereby proclaim freedom for you ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​to the sword, to plague, and to famine! I will make you a horror to all the earth’s kingdoms.

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