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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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, ἡ, (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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:25

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“Yahweh shall cause you to be [fn]defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will become an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:4 - “If those of you who are banished are at the ends of the sky, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there He will take you back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:9 - but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been banished were at the ends of the sky, I will gather them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:2 -

Yahweh builds up Jerusalem;

He gathers the [fn]outcasts of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:6

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He says, “It is too [fn]small a thing that You should be My Servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to cause the preserved ones of Israel to return;

I will also give You as a light [fn]of the nations

So that My salvation may [fn]reach to the end of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:7

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“And I will winnow them with a winnowing fork

At the gates of the land;

I will bereave them of children; I will make My people perish;

They did not [fn]repent of their ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

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“Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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