Lexicon :: Strong's H6327 - pûṣ

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.

And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”

So from there the LORD scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.

“Their anger is cursed, for it is strong,

and their fury, for it is cruel!

I will disperse them throughout Jacob

and scatter them throughout Israel.

So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say:

Arise, LORD!

Let your enemies be scattered,

and those who hate you flee from your presence.

“The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors[fn] among the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

“Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

“then he will restore your fortunes,[fn] have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.

The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions. During the morning watch, they invaded the Ammonite camp and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. There were survivors, but they were so scattered that no two of them were left together.

He waited seven days for the appointed time that Samuel had set, but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the troops were deserting him.

He then said, “Go among the troops and say to them, ‘Let each man bring me his ox or his sheep. Do the slaughtering here and then you can eat. Don’t sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood in it.’ ” So every one of the troops brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.

The battle spread over the entire area, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

He shot arrows and scattered them;

he hurled lightning bolts and routed them.

So Micaiah said:

I saw all Israel scattered on the hills

like sheep without a shepherd.

And the LORD said,

“They have no master;

let everyone return home in peace.”

the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered.

So Micaiah said:

I saw all Israel scattered on the hills

like sheep without a shepherd.

And the LORD said,

“They have no master;

let each return home in peace.”

Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.

I was at ease, but he shattered me;

he seized me by the scruff of the neck

and smashed me to pieces.

He set me up as his target;

Terrors frighten him on every side

and harass him at every step.

He saturates clouds with moisture;

he scatters his lightning through them.

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[fn]

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

Pour out your raging anger;

look on every proud person and humiliate him.

He shot his arrows and scattered them;

he hurled[fn] lightning bolts and routed them.

God arises. His enemies scatter,

and those who hate him flee from his presence.

Flash your lightning and scatter the foe;[fn]

shoot your arrows and rout them.

Should your springs flow in the streets,

streams in the public squares?

Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare

and making it desolate.

He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

When he has leveled its surface,

does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?

He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,

with spelt as their border.

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.

“I will scatter them among the nations that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

For the shepherds are stupid:

They don’t seek the LORD.

Therefore they have not prospered,

and their whole flock is scattered.

I will scatter you[fn] like drifting chaff

before the desert wind.

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.

I will show them[fn] my back and not my face

on the day of their calamity.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! ” This is the LORD’s declaration.

“Is not my word like fire” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“and like a hammer that pulverizes rock?

For I will be with you —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

to save you!

I will bring destruction on all the nations

where I have scattered you;

however, I will not bring destruction on you.

I will discipline you justly,

and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, “Let me go kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and allow all of Judah that has gathered around you to scatter and the remnant of Judah to perish? ”

The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered.

“Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Though 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 where they have gone.’

“They will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

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

I will bring you from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you were scattered, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath.

“When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will demonstrate my holiness through you in the sight of the nations.

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

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are scattered, I will demonstrate my holiness through them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.