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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #1290 - διασπορά

Transliteration

diasporá

Phonetics

dee-as-por-ah'

Root Word (Etymology)

from (G1289)

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TDNT

2:98,156

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

a scattering, dispersion
1. of Israelites dispersed among foreign nations
2. of the Christians scattered abroad among the Gentiles

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2113 ‑ זְוָעָה (zev‑aw‑aw'); 2189 ‑ זַעֲוָה (zah‑av‑aw'); 2781 ‑ חֶרְפָּה (kher‑paw'); 4214 ‑ מִזְרֶה (miz‑reh'); 5080 ‑ נָדַח (naw‑dakh'); 5341 ‑ נָצַר (naw‑tsar'); 7843 ‑ שָׁחַת (shaw‑khath');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (3)

John 1

James 1

1 Peter 1

NAS (4)

John 1

James 1

1 Peter 2

HCS (3)

John 1

James 1

1 Peter 1

BSB (3)

John 1

James 1

1 Peter 1

ESV (3)

John 1

James 1

1 Peter 1

WEB (3)

John 1

James 1

1 Peter 1

KJV (3)

abroad 1

dispersed 1

scattered 1

NAS (4)

Dispersion 1

dispersed 1

scattered 1

throughout 1

HCS (3)

Dispersion 2

dispersed 1

BSB (3)

Dispersion 1

Jews are dispersed 1

of [the] Dispersion 1

ESV (3)

Dispersion 3

WEB (3)

in the Dispersion in 1

the Dispersion 1

which are in the Dispersion 1

RAH

N-APF 1

N-ASF 3

N-DSF 2

N-NSF 2

ANT

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

BEZ

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

BGB

N-AFS 1

N-DFS 1

N-GFS 1

BMT

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

BYZ

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

ELZ

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

NA26

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

SBL

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

SCV

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

STV

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

TIS

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

N-ASF 1

N-DSF 1

N-GSF 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

διασπορ-ά, ἡ, (διασπείρω)

1. scattering, dispersion, Plu. 2.1105a, LXX Jeremiah 15:7; δ. ψυχική Ph. 2.426.

2. collectively, = οἱ διεσπαρμένοι, LXX Deuteronomy 28:25, John 7:35 : pl., LXX Psalms 146:2(147).2.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

διασπορά, διασπορᾶς, ἡ (διασπείρω, cf. such words as ἀγορά, διαφθορά) (Vulg. dispersio), a scattering, dispersion: ἀτομων, opposed to σύμμιξις καί παραζευξις, Plutarch, mor., p. 1105 a.; in the Sept. used of the Israelites dispersed among foreign nations, Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 30:4; especially of their Babylonian exile, Jeremiah 41:17 (); Isaiah 49:6; Judith 5:19; abstract for concrete of the exiles themselves, Psalm 146:2 () (equivalent to (נִדְחִים, expelled, outcasts); 2 Macc. 1:27; εἰς τήν διασποράν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, unto those dispersed among the Greeks (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 a.), John 7:35. Transferred to Christians (i. e. Jewish Christians (?)) scattered abroad among the Gentiles: James 1:1 (ἐν τῇ διασπορά, namely, οὖσι); παρεπίδημοί διασπορᾶς Πόντου, sojourners far away from home, in Pontus, 1 Peter 1:1 (see παρεπίδημος). (BB. DD. under the word ; especially Schürer, N. T. Zeitgeseh. § 31.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

δια -σπορά , -ᾶς , ἡ

(< διασπείρω ),

[in LXX of Israelites dispersed and exiled in foreign lands, as Deuteronomy 28:25 (H2189) Deuteronomy 30:4 (H5080 ni.), Isaiah 49:6 (נער ); by meton., of the exiles themselves (as Psalms 147:2, 2 Maccabees 1:27);]

a dispersion: δ . τῶν Ἑλλήνων , John 7:35; metaph., of Christians (DB, iii, 782 f.), James 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1 (v. Hort, in ll).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

List of Word Forms

διασπορα διασπορά διασπορᾷ διασποραν διασποράν διασπορὰν διασπορας διασποράς διασπορᾶς diaspora diasporā̂i diasporan diasporàn diasporas diasporâs