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Hebrew verb · H2219

זָרָה

zarahzaw-raw'

to scatter

39 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: zârâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 35
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2219

to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow

The King James renders it: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.

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

zarah is rendered "to scatter". It stands 39 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 32:20Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-five different ways.

The first use

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

Exodus 32:20וַיִּ֙זֶר֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirteen of the word's thirty-nine uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and I will disperse4
  • winnowing4
  • and I will disperse them2
  • and I will scatter them2
  • I will disperse2
  • they scattered2
  • and he scattered1
  • and he will scatter them1
  • and I have winnowed them1
  • and I will disperse you1
  • and I will spread1
  • and they were dispersed1

and 17 more, 39 uses in all

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.

זָרָאzaraloathsomeUses1

All 39, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

35 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

  • וְזֵרִיתִ֥י3
  • אֱזָרֶ֣ה2
  • תִּזְרֵם֙2
  • אֱזָרֶ֔ה1
  • בְּהִזָּרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם1
  • וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם1
  • וְזֵר֔וּהָ1
  • וְזֵרִיתִי֙1
  • וְזֵרִ֤יתִי1
  • וְזֵרִיתִ֖יךְ1
  • וְֽזֵרִיתִ֖ים1
  • וְזֵרִיתִ֖ם1

and 23 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vpq1cs5Hc/Vpq1cs
  • Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mp4Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVpi1cs
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular2HVprmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi2ms/Sp3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/Vpcc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc
  • Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
  • Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp2fs1Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp2fs
  • Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fs1Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fs

Exodus

one use
  • Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

    Exodus 32:20

    • וַיִּ֙זֶר֙vaiyizerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he scattered

Leviticus

one use
  • But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

    Leviticus 26:33

    • אֱזָרֶ֣הʾezarehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will scatter

Numbers

one use
  • “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.

    Numbers 16:37

    • זְרֵה־zereh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: scatter

Ruth

one use
  • Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

    Ruth 3:2

    • זֹרֶ֛הzorehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: winnowing

1 Kings

one use
  • For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

    1 Kings 14:15

    • וְזֵרָ֖םvezeramHc/Vpq3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he will scatter them

Job

one use
  • Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

    Job 18:15

    • יְזֹרֶ֖הyezorehverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is scattered

Psalms

three uses
  • You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

    Psalms 44:11

    • זֵרִיתָֽנוּ׃zeritanuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: you have scattered us
  • to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

    Psalms 106:27

    • וּ֝לְזָרוֹתָ֗םulezarotamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and to scatter them
  • You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

    Psalms 139:3

    • זֵרִ֑יתָzeritaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you sift

Proverbs

four uses
  • How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

    Proverbs 1:17

    • מְזֹרָ֣הmezorahverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: spread out
  • The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.

    Proverbs 15:7

    • יְזָ֣רוּyezaruverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they scatter
  • A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

    Proverbs 20:8

    • מְזָרֶ֖הmezarehverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: winnowing
  • A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.

    Proverbs 20:26

    • מְזָרֶ֣הmezarehverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: winnowing

Isaiah

three uses
  • So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

    Isaiah 30:22

    • תִּזְרֵם֙tizremverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will throw away them
  • The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

    Isaiah 30:24

    • זֹרֶ֥הzorehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: winnowing
  • You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

    Isaiah 41:16

    • תִּזְרֵם֙tizremverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will winnow them

Jeremiah

six uses
  • At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

    Jeremiah 4:11

    • לִזְר֖וֹתlizrotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to winnow
  • I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

    Jeremiah 15:7

    • וָאֶזְרֵ֥םvaezremHc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I have winnowed them
  • Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

    Jeremiah 31:10

    • מְזָרֵ֤הmezarehverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scattered of
  • Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 49:32

    • וְזֵרִתִ֥יםvezeritimHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will scatter them
  • 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 exiles will not go.

    Jeremiah 49:36

    • וְזֵ֣רִתִ֔יםvezeritimHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will scatter them
  • I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.

    Jeremiah 51:2

    • וְזֵר֔וּהָvezeruhaHc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will winnow it

Ezekiel

thirteen uses
  • When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also 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 unleash a sword behind them.

    Ezekiel 5:2

    • תִּזְרֶ֣הtizrehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will disperse
  • As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

    Ezekiel 5:10

    • וְזֵרִיתִ֥יvezeritiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will disperse
  • A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

    Ezekiel 5:12

    • אֱזָרֶ֔הʾezarehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will disperse
  • I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

    Ezekiel 6:5

    • וְזֵרִיתִי֙vezeritiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will disperse
  • Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

    Ezekiel 6:8

    • בְּהִזָּרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖םbehizaroteikhempreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: when are dispersed you
  • And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

    Ezekiel 12:14

    • אֱזָרֶ֣הʾezarehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will disperse
  • And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

    Ezekiel 12:15

    • וְזֵרִיתִ֥יvezeritiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will disperse
  • However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

    Ezekiel 20:23

    • וּלְזָר֥וֹתulezarotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to disperse
  • I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

    Ezekiel 22:15

    • וְזֵרִיתִ֖יךְvezeritikhHc/Vpq1cs/Sp2fstagged: and I will disperse you
  • I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

    Ezekiel 29:12

    • וְֽזֵרִיתִ֖יםvezeritimHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will disperse them
  • I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

    Ezekiel 30:23

    • וְזֵרִיתִ֖םvezeritimHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will disperse them
  • I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

    Ezekiel 30:26

    • וְזֵרִיתִ֥יvezeritiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will disperse
  • I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.

    Ezekiel 36:19

    • וַיִּזָּר֖וּvaiyizaruHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were dispersed

Zechariah

three uses
  • So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

    Zechariah 1:19

    • זֵר֣וּzeruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they scattered
  • “What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

    Zechariah 1:21

    • זֵ֣רוּzeruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they scattered
    • לְזָרוֹתָֽהּ׃ סlezarotahpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to scatter it

Malachi

one use
  • Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

    Malachi 2:3

    • וְזֵרִ֤יתִיvezeritiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will spread

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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