Strong's #2219: zarah (pronounced zaw-raw')

a primitive root (compare 2114); to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow:--cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zârâh

1) to scatter, fan, cast away, winnow, disperse, compass, spread, be scattered, be dispersed

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to scatter

1a2) to fan, winnow

1b) (Niphal) to be scattered, be dispersed

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to scatter, disperse (intensive of Qal)

1c2) to winnow, sift

1d) (Pual) to be scattered, be spread out

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [compare H2114]

Usage:

This word is used 39 times:

 

Exodus 32:20: "and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water,"
Leviticus 26:33: " And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,"
Numbers 16:37: "the censers out of and scatter thou the fire yonder; for"
Ruth 3:2: "thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley tonight in the threshingfloor."
1 Kings 14:15: "land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river,"
Job 18:15: "in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation."
Psalms 44:11: "Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen."
Psalms 106:27: "To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands."
Psalms 139:3: " Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways."
Proverbs 1:17: "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."
Proverbs 15:7: "The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so."
Proverbs 20:8: "in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes."
Proverbs 20:26: "A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over"
Isaiah 30:22: "and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence."
Isaiah 30:24: "clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel"
Isaiah 41:16: " Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,"
Jeremiah 4:11: "of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,"
Jeremiah 15:7: " And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people,"
Jeremiah 31:10: "it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel him, and keep"
Jeremiah 49:32: "and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost"
Jeremiah 49:36: "from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all winds;"
Jeremiah 51:2: "And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for"
Ezekiel 5:2: "about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after"
Ezekiel 5:10: "the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds."
Ezekiel 5:12: "shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out"
Ezekiel 6:5: "of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones your altars."
Ezekiel 6:8: "some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries."
Ezekiel 12:14: " And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all"
Ezekiel 12:15: "am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries."
Ezekiel 20:23: "in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;"
Ezekiel 22:15: "And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of"
Ezekiel 29:12: "the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."
Ezekiel 30:23: "the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."
Ezekiel 30:26: "the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I"
Ezekiel 36:19: "And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged"
Zechariah 1:19: "And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah,"
Zechariah 1:21: "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man"
Zechariah 1:21: "over the land of Judah to scatter"
Malachi 2:3: "I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung"