“to dissolve,” is used in Act 5:36<\/span> of the breaking up and dispersion of a company of men, RV, “dispersed,” AV, “scattered.” See SCATTER. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to scatter” (probably from a root, skarp—, signifying “to cut asunder,” akin to skorpios, “a scorpion”), is used in Mat 12:30<\/span>; Luk 11:23<\/span>; Joh 10:12<\/span>; Joh 16:32<\/span>; in the RV of 2Co 9:9<\/span>, “scattered abroad” (AV, “he hath dispersed abroad”), of one who liberally dispenses benefits. See SCATTER. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n dia, “through,” and No. 2, signifies “to scatter abroad,” in Mat 26:31<\/span>; Mar 14:27<\/span>, metaphorically of sheep; in Luk 1:51<\/span>, of the proud; in Joh 11:52<\/span>, of the “scattering” of the children of God; in Act 5:37<\/span>, of the followers of Judas of Galilee (AV, “were dispersed”); cp. No. 1, re Act 5:36<\/span>; of “scattering” grain by winnowing, Mat 25:24<\/span>, Mat 25:26<\/span>; in Luk 15:13<\/span>; Luk 16:1<\/span>, it signifies “to waste.” See SCATTER, STRAWED, WASTE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to scatter abroad” (dia, “through,” speiro, “to sow”), is used in Act 8:1<\/span>, Act 8:4<\/span>; Act 11:19<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 4, “a scattering, a dispersion,” was used of the Jews who from time to time had been scattered among the Gentiles, Joh 7:35<\/span>; later with reference to Jews, so “scattered,” who had professed, or actually embraced, the Christian faith, “the Dispersion,” Jam 1:1<\/span>, RV; especially of believers who were converts from Judaism and “scattered” throughout certain districts, “sojourners of the Dispersion,” 1Pe 1:1<\/span>, RV. In the Sept., of Israelites, “scattered” and exiled, e.g., Deu 28:25<\/span>; Deu 30:4<\/span>; Neh 1:9<\/span>. <\/p>\n Disperse, Dispersion “to dissolve,” is used in Act 5:36 of the breaking up and dispersion of a company of men, RV, “dispersed,” AV, “scattered.” See SCATTER. “to scatter” (probably from a root, skarp—, signifying “to cut asunder,” akin to skorpios, “a scorpion”), is used in Mat 12:30; Luk 11:23; Joh 10:12; Joh 16:32; in the … Continue reading “Disperse, Dispersion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"