Hebrew verb · H6327
פּוּץ
putspoots
to scatter; scatterer; to flow; to shatter
67 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pûwts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6327is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 20 of 39Old Testament books
- 60spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6327
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
The King James renders it: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread 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
puts is rendered "to scatter; scatterer; to flow; to shatter". It stands 67 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "to scatter".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 10:18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
- The Greek text spells it sixty different ways.
The first use
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
Genesis 10:18נָפֹ֔צוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nineteen of the word's sixty-seven uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: to scatter, and scatterer, and to flow, and to shatter.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to scatterStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 10:18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered, |
| scattererStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to flowStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to shatterStrong's entry D | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they were scattered5
- and I will scatter4
- and I will scatter them3
- scattered3
- you have been scattered3
- and he scattered them2
- and he will scatter2
- and it scattered2
- and they have been scattered2
- and they were scattered2
- they have been scattered2
- you have scattered2
and 35 more, 67 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פּוּחַ | puach | to breathe | Uses14 |
| פּוּר | Pur | Purim | Uses8 |
| פּוּק | puq | to promote | Uses7 |
| פּוּג | pug | be numb | Uses4 |
| פּוּךְ | puk | color | Uses4 |
| פּוּשׁ | push | to leap | Uses4 |
| פּוּר | pur | to break | Uses3 |
| פּוּק | puq | to reel | Uses2 |
| פּוּרָה | purah | winepress | Uses2 |
| פּוּן | pun | to distract | Uses1 |
| פּוּגָה | pugah | cessation | Uses1 |
| פּוּנִי | Puni | Punite | Uses1 |
and 2 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 67, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
60 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
- נָפֹ֣צוּ3
- וַאֲפִיצֵ֖ם2
- וַיְפִיצֵ֑ם2
- וַיָּ֥פֶץ2
- יָפ֣וּצוּ2
- נָפֹ֖צוּ2
- אָפִ֥יץ1
- אֲפִיצֵ֖ם1
- בַּהֲפִיצִ֤י1
- הֲפִֽיצוֹתִ֖ים1
- הֲפִיצוֹתֶ֛ם1
- הֱפִֽיצְךָ֛1
and 48 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural7HVNp3cp
- Hc/Vhq1cs4Hc/Vhq1cs
- Hc/Vhq3ms3Hc/Vhq3ms
- Hc/Vhw3ms3Hc/Vhw3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural3HVNp2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
- HC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mp2HC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp2Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vqw3fp2Hc/Vqw3fp
- Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HR/Vhcc/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2HVhp2mp
Genesis
five uses
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
- נָפֹ֔צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were scattered
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
- נָפ֖וּץnafutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we should be scattered
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
- וַיָּ֨פֶץvaiyafetzHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he scattered
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
- הֱפִיצָ֣םhefitzamverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he scattered them
Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
- וַאֲפִיצֵ֖םvaafitzemHC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will scatter them
Exodus
one use
So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- וַיָּ֥פֶץvaiyafetzHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it scattered
Numbers
one use
Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
- וְיָפֻ֙צוּ֙veyafutzuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may be scattered
Deuteronomy
three uses
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- וְהֵפִ֧יץvehefitzHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will scatter
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- וֶהֱפִֽיצְךָ֤vehefitzekhaHc/Vhq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will scatter you
then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
- הֱפִֽיצְךָ֛hefitzekhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he has scattered you
1 Samuel
three uses
The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.
- וַיָּפֻ֔צוּvaiyafutzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were scattered
And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.
- וַיָּ֥פֶץvaiyafetzHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it scattered
Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.’” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
- פֻּ֣צוּputzuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be scattered
2 Samuel
three uses
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
- נָפֹ֖צֶתnafotzeitverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: scattered
Then 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 his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
- וַיָּפֻ֥צוּvaiyafutzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were scattered
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
- וַיְפִיצֵ֑םvayfitzemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he scattered them
1 Kings
one use
So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
- נְפֹצִ֣יםnefotzimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: scattered
2 Kings
one use
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
- נָפֹ֖צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were scattered
2 Chronicles
one use
So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
- נְפוֹצִ֣יםnefotzimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: scattered
Nehemiah
one use
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
- אָפִ֥יץʾafitzverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will scatter
Job
five uses
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- וַֽיְפַצְפְּצֵ֑נִיvayfatzpetzeniHc/Vpw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he shattered me
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- וֶהֱפִיצֻ֥הוּvehefitzuhuHc/Vhq3cp/Sp3mstagged: and they scatter him
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- יָ֝פִ֗יץyafitzverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he scatters
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
- יָפֵ֖ץyafetzverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it scatters
Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
- הָ֭פֵץhafetzverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: scatter
Psalms
three uses
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
- וַיְפִיצֵ֑םvayfitzemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he scattered them
God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- יָפ֣וּצוּyafutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they be scattered
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
- וּתְפִיצֵ֑םutefitzemHC/Vhu2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will scatter them
Proverbs
one use
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
- יָפ֣וּצוּyafutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will they overflow
Isaiah
three uses
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
- וְהֵפִ֖יץvehefitzHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will scatter
When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
- וְהֵפִ֥יץvehefitzHc/Vhq3mstagged: and does he scatter
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.
- תָּפִ֣יץtafitzverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will scatter
Jeremiah
ten uses
I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
- וַהֲפִֽצוֹתִים֙vahafitzotimHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will scatter them
For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
- נָפֽוֹצָה׃ סnafotzahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been scattered
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- וַאֲפִיצֵ֖םvaafitzemHC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will scatter them
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
- אֲפִיצֵ֖םʾafitzemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will scatter them
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
- וּמְפִצִ֛יםumefitzimconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and scattering
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
- הֲפִצֹתֶ֤םhafitzotemverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have scattered
“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
- יְפֹ֥צֵֽץyefotzetzverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it shatters
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- הֲפִצוֹתִ֣יךָhafitzotikhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have scattered you
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
- וְנָפֹ֙צוּ֙venafotzuHc/VNq3cptagged: and will they be scattered
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
- נָפֹ֖צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were scattered
Ezekiel
nineteen uses
Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although 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 to which they have gone.’
- הֲפִֽיצוֹתִ֖יםhafitzotimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I have scattered them
Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’
- נְפֹצוֹתֶ֖םnefotzotemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have been scattered
And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- בַּהֲפִיצִ֤יbahafitzipreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when scatter I
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.
- לְהָפִ֤יץlehafitzpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to scatter
With a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered.
- נְפוֹצֹתֶ֖םnefotzotemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have been scattered
When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
- נְפֹצֹתֶ֖םnefotzotemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have been scattered
I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
- וַהֲפִיצוֹתִ֤יvahafitzotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will scatter
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.
- נָפֹ֣צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been scattered
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.
- וַהֲפִצֹתִ֤יvahafitzotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will scatter
For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.
- נָפֹ֥צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were scattered
I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
- וַהֲפִצוֹתִ֥יvahafitzotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will scatter
I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- וַהֲפִצוֹתִ֤יvahafitzotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will scatter
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.
- וַתְּפוּצֶ֖ינָהvatefutzeinahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they have been scattered
- וַתְּפוּצֶֽינָה׃vatefutzeinahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they have been scattered
My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
- נָפֹ֣צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been scattered
As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
- נָפֹ֣צוּnafotzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were scattered
Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
- הֲפִיצוֹתֶ֛םhafitzotemverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have scattered
I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.
- וָאָפִ֤יץvaafitzHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I scattered
The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
- יָפֻ֣צוּyafutzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be scattered
Nahum
one use
One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
- מֵפִ֛יץmefitzverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: scatters
Habakkuk
two uses
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
- וַיִּתְפֹּֽצְצוּ֙vaiyitpotzetzuHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they have been shattered
With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
- לַהֲפִיצֵ֑נִיlahafitzenipreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to scatter me
Zephaniah
one use
From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.
- פוּצַ֔יputzaiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: scattered my
Zechariah
two uses
Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
- תְּפוּצֶ֥ינָהtefutzeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will overflow
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- וּתְפוּצֶ֣יןָutefutzeinaHC/Vqu3fptagged: and they may be scattered
The letters
Gematria 176· 986 mispar gadol
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How the numbers are counted
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