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Hebrew verb · H6340

פָּזַר

pazarpaw-zar'

to scatter

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

Concordance spelling: pâzar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6340is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 10
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6340

to scatter, whether in enmity or bounty

The King James renders it: disperse, 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

pazar is rendered "to scatter". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 3:8Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
  • The Greek text spells it ten different ways.

The first use

Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

Esther 3:8מְפֻזָּ֤ר

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

Where the word stands

Five of the word's ten uses are in Psalms.

The other 34 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

  • he scatters2
  • scattered2
  • and you have scattered1
  • he has scattered1
  • scatters1
  • they have been scattered1
  • they have scattered1
  • you 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.

פָּזpazpure goldUses9
פָּזַזpazazbe agileUses2
פָּזַזpazazbe refinedUses1

All 10, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

10 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

  • וַתְּפַזְּרִ֨י1
  • יְפַזֵּֽר׃1
  • מְ֭פַזֵּר1
  • מְפֻזָּ֤ר1
  • נִפְזְר֥וּ1
  • פְזוּרָ֛ה1
  • פִּ֭זַּר1
  • פִּזַּ֤ר׀1
  • פִּזְּר֣וּ1
  • פִּזַּ֥רְתָּ1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3ms
  • Hc/Vpw2fs1Hc/Vpw2fs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpp2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular1HVqsfsa

Esther

one use
  • Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

    Esther 3:8

    • מְפֻזָּ֤רmefuzarverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: scattered

Psalms

five uses
  • There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.

    Psalms 53:5

    • פִּ֭זַּרpizarverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has scattered
  • You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

    Psalms 89:10

    • פִּזַּ֥רְתָּpizartaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you scattered
  • He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

    Psalms 112:9

    • פִּזַּ֤ר׀pizarverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he scatters
  • As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

    Psalms 141:7

    • נִפְזְר֥וּnifzeruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been scattered
  • He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

    Psalms 147:16

    • יְפַזֵּֽר׃yefazerverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he scatters

Proverbs

one use
  • One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

    Proverbs 11:24

    • מְ֭פַזֵּרmefazerverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: scatters

Jeremiah

two uses
  • Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 3:13

    • וַתְּפַזְּרִ֨יvatefazeriHc/Vpw2fstagged: and you have scattered
  • Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

    Jeremiah 50:17

    • פְזוּרָ֛הfezurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: scattered

Joel

one use
  • I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.

    Joel 3:2

    • פִּזְּר֣וּpizeruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have scattered

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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