Lexicon :: Strong's H2219 - zārâ

He took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.

“But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the firepans from the burning debris, because they are holy, and scatter the fire far away.

“Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

“For the LORD will strike Israel so that they will[fn] shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

Nothing he owned remains in his tent.

Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.

You hand us over to be eaten like sheep

and scatter us among the nations.

and would disperse their descendants[fn]

among the nations,

scattering them throughout the lands.

You observe my travels and my rest;

you are aware of all my ways.

It is useless to spread a net

where any bird can see it,

The lips of the wise broadcast knowledge,

but not so the heart of fools.

A king sitting on a throne to judge

separates out all evil with his eyes.

A wise king separates out the wicked

and drives the threshing wheel over them.

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.

You will winnow them

and a wind will carry them away,

a whirlwind will scatter them.

But you will rejoice in the LORD;

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear[fn] people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

“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.

Nations, hear the word of the LORD,

and tell it among the far off coasts and islands!

Say, “The one who scattered Israel will gather him.

He will watch over him as a shepherd guards his flock,

Their camels will become plunder,

and their massive herds of cattle will become spoil.

I will scatter them to the wind in every direction,

those who clip the hair on their temples;

I will bring calamity on them across all their borders.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I will bring the four winds against Elam

from the four corners of the heavens,

and I will scatter them to all these winds.

There will not be a nation

to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.

I will send strangers to Babylon

who will scatter her and strip her land bare,

for they will come against her

from every side in the day of disaster.

“You are to burn a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.

“As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem,[fn] and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

“A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

“I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

“Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.

“I will also scatter all the attendants who surround him and all his troops to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

“However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

“I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries; I will purge your uncleanness.

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among[fn] desolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among[fn] ruined cities for forty years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

“I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

“When I disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries, they will know that I am the LORD.”

“I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries. I judged them according to their conduct and actions.

So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these? ”

And he said to me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

I asked, “What are they coming to do? ”

He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so no one could raise his head. These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off[fn] the horns of the nations that raised a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

“Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread animal waste[fn] over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices, and you will be taken away with it.