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Strong's #4650 - σκορπίζω
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- to scatter
- of those who, routed or terror stricken or driven by some other impulses, fly in every direction
- to scatter abroad (what others may collect for themselves), or one dispensing blessings literally
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σκορπ-ίζω,
fut. -ιῶ LXX Job 39:15 : —
scatter, disperse, Ion. word, Hecat. 366J. ( Pass. ); elsewh. only in later writers, LXX 2 Samuel 22:15, al., Str. 4.4.6, Ev.Matthew 12:30, Dsc. 4.134, Philum. Ven. 12.2; ἐσκορπισμέναι μύξαι CPHerm. 7ii 18 (iii A.D.) .
2. disintegrate, reduce to powder, Zos.Alch. p.177 B.
3. dissipate, τὸν πατρικὸν βίον Cat.Cod.Astr. 2.162 .
σκορπίζω; 1 aorist ἐσκορπισα; 1 aorist passive ἐσκορπίσθην; ((probably from the root, skarp, 'to cut asunder,' 'cut to pieces'; akin is σκορπίος; cf. Latinscalpere, scrobs, etc.; Fick 1:240; 3:811, etc.)); to scatter: ὁ λύκος σκορπίζει τά πρόβατα, John 10:12; ὁ μήν συνάγων μετ' ἐμοῦ σκορπίζει, Matthew 12:30; Luke 11:23 (this proverb is taken from a flock — to which the body of Christ's followers is likened (others regard the proverb as borrowed from agriculture); συνάγει τούς ἐσκορπισμενους τό ὄργανον (i. e. a trumpet), Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 56 at the beginning); τινα, in the passive, of those who, routed or terror stricken or driven by some other impulse, fly in every direction: followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, John 16:32 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 516 (481)) (1 Macc. 6:54; φοβηθέντες ἐκορπισθησαν, Plutarch, Timol. 4; add, Josephus, Antiquities 6, 6, 3). equivalent to to scatter abroad (what others may collect for themselves), of one dispensing blessings liberally: 2 Corinthians 9:9 from Psalm 111:9
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σκορπίζω ,
[in LXX for H6327 hi., etc.;]
in vernac. and in Ion, and late writers for σκεδάννυμι (v. MM, xxiii; Rutherford, NPhr., 295), to scatter: ὁ λύκος , John 10:12; ὁ μὴ συνάγων μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ σκορπίζει , Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23; pass., seq. εἰς , c. acc loc., John 16:32; of one who dispenses blessings, 2 Corinthians 9:9 (LXX) (of. δια -σκορπίζομαι ).†
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For στόμα the ";mouth"; of a river or canal, cf. P Strass I. 55.9 (ii/A.D.) δίδομε ̣ν ̣ τοὺς ὑπογεγρα (μμένους) εἰς ἀφεσοφυλα ̣κ ̣ίαν ἀπὸ στώματο ̣[ς ] (l. στόματο ̣[ς ]) Ψι [[α ]]ναλ ( ) (";the canal Psinal( )";) ἕως κτήματος ἀμπελ (ικοῦ) Ἰσίου Λεοντᾶτος, and OGIS 90.25 (Rosetta stone—B.C. 196) τὰ στόματα τῶν ποταμῶν, ";the mouths of the canals.";
For στόμα in prepositional phrases see P Giss I. 36.12 (B.C. 161) αἱ τέτταρες λέγουσαι ἐξ ἑνὸς στόματος γρα (μματεῖ) Νεχούθει (with editor’s note and cf. Acts 22:14), and the common καθὼς καὶ ἐν στόματι ὑπηγόρευσα, as in P Mon I. 11.34 (A.D. 586). Στόμα πρὸς στόμα, as in 2 John 1:12, 3 John 1:14, occurs in the Berlin magic papyrus I.39, ed. Parthey in Abh. d. königl. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1866, p. 121. The ";Hebraisms"; involved in such phrases are discussed by Moulton Proleg. p. 99 f.
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