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Strong's #1287 - διασκορπίζω
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- to scatter abroad, disperse, to winnow
- to throw the grain a considerable distance, or up into the air, that it may be separated from the chaff
- to gather the wheat, freed from the chaff into the granary
- to winnow grain
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διασκορπ-ίζω,
scatter abroad, LXX Genesis 49:7 (v.l.), al.: — Pass., John 11:52, Plb. 1.47.5, BGU 1049.7 (iv A. D.); squander, οὐσίαν Luke 15:13; confound, ib. 1.51; winnow, συνάγων ὅθεν οὐ διεσκόρπισας Matthew 25:24.
διασκορπίζω; 1 aorist διεσκόρπισα; passive, perfect participle διεσκορπισμενος; 1 aorist διεσκορπίσθην; 1 future διεσκορπισθήσομαι; often in the Sept., more rarely in Greek writings from Polybius 1, 47, 4; 27, 2, 10 on (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 218; (Winers Grammar, 25)); to scatter abroad, disperse: John 11:52 (opposed to συνάγω); of the enemy, Luke 1:51; Acts 5:37 (Numbers 10:35, etc. Josephus, Antiquities 8, 15, 4; Aelian v. h. 13, 46 (1, 6) ὁ δράκων τούς μέν διεσκόρπισε, τούς δέ ἀπέκτεινε). Of a flock of sheep: Matthew 26:31 (from Zechariah 13:7); Mark 14:27; of property, to squander, waste: Luke 15:13; Luke 16:1 (like διασπείρω in Sophocles El. 1291). like the Hebrew זָרָה (the Sept. Ezekiel 5:2, 10, 12 (Ald.), etc.) of grain, to scatter, i. e. to winnow (i. e., to throw the grain a considerable distance, or up into the air, that it may be separated from the chaff; opposed to συνάγω, to gather the wheat, freed from the chaff, into the granary (cf. BB. DD. under the word
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† δια -σκορπίζω ,
[in LXX for H6327, H2219, etc.;]
to scatter abroad, disperse: of sheep, Matthew 26:31 = Mark 14:27 (LXX); of persons, Luke 1:51, Acts 5:37, opp. to συνάγω , John 11:52; of winnowing grain, Matthew 25:24; Matthew 25:26; metaph., of property, to squander, waste: Luke 15:13; Luke 16:1.†
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BGU IV. 1049.7 (a deed of sale—iv/A.D.) ἐν ᾧ φύν [ι ]κες (l. φοίνικες) διεσκορπισμένοι κτλ. The verb is found with reference to the broken bread of the Eucharist in Didache 9:4 ὥσπερ ἦν τοῦτο κλάσμα διεσκορπισμένον ἐπάνω τῶν ὀρεων καὶ συναχθὲν ἐγένετο ἕν, οὕτω συναχθήτω σου ἡ ἐκκλησία κτλ. The subst. is found P Tebt I. 24.55 (B.C. 117) ὑπὸ διασκορπισμὸν τὰ τῆς φορολογίας ἀγάγωσιν, ";they might produce the dispersal of this revenue"; (Edd.).
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