Greek verb · G1289
διασπείρω
diaspeirodee-as-pi'-ro
to scatter
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: diaspeírō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1289is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1289
to sow throughout, i.e. (figuratively) distribute in foreign lands
The King James renders it: scatter abroad.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
diaspeiro is rendered "to scatter". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:1And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Acts 8:1διεσπάρησαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having been scattered2
- were scattered1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διασκορπίζω | diaskorpizo | to scatter | Uses9 |
| διασώζω | diasozo | to save | Uses8 |
| διαστέλλομαι | diastellomai | to give orders | Uses8 |
| διαστρέφω | diastrepho | to pervert | Uses7 |
| διασπορά | diaspora | dispersion | Uses3 |
| διαστολή | diastole | distinction | Uses3 |
| διασπάω | diaspao | to tear apart | Uses2 |
| διασαφέω | diasapheo | to explain | Uses2 |
| διασείω | diaseio | to extort | Uses1 |
| διάστημα | diastema | interval | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- διασπαρέντες2
- διεσπάρησαν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-2APP-NPM
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-2API-3P
Acts
three uses
And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
- διεσπάρησανdiesparesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were scattered
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
- διασπαρέντεςdiasparentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having been scattered
Meanwhile those scattered by the persecution that began with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only to Jews.
- διασπαρέντεςdiasparentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having been scattered
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.