zara · scatter, winnow

What it means

zara (זָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scatter, winnow”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To strew people or things about.
2. To toss grain in the air to remove the chaff.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I will scatter ×8
• scatter ×8
• scattered ×7
• disperse ×5
• winnow ×3
• winnows ×2
• I winnowed them ×1
• has been winnowed ×1
• spread ×1
• they were dispersed ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×13
• Zechariah×3
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 32:20

  And he took the calf that they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it until it was fine dust, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

• Leviticus 26:33

  And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you; and your land will be a desolation, and your cities will be a ruin.

• Numbers 16:37

  “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers from among the burning, and scatter the fire far away, for they have become holy,

• Ruth 3:2

  And now, is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you have been? Look, he is winnowing the threshing floor of barley tonight.

• 1 Kings 14:15

  YHWH will strike Israel, as the reed sways in the water; and he will uproot Israel from off this good land that he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River Euphrates, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking YHWH to anger.

• Job 18:15

  What is not his dwells in his tent; sulfur is scattered over his abode.

• Psalms 44:11

  You give us up like sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

• Psalms 106:27

  and to make their offspring fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

• Psalms 139:3

  My path and my lying down you have sifted, and all my ways you are familiar with.

• Proverbs 1:17

  For in vain the net is spread in the eyes of any bird.

• Proverbs 15:7

  The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, but the heart of the senseless is not so.

• Proverbs 20:8

  A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows with his eyes all evil.

• Proverbs 20:26

  A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives over them the wheel.

• Isaiah 30:22

  And you will defile the overlay of your carved idols of silver, and the plating of your cast image of gold; you will scatter them like a menstruous cloth; “Out!” you will say to it.

• Isaiah 30:24

  And the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

• Isaiah 41:16

  You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them off, and the storm will scatter them; and you will rejoice in YHWH; in the Holy One of Israel you will glory.

• Jeremiah 4:11

  At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness comes on the way of the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse,

• Jeremiah 15:7

  And I winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I bereaved them, I destroyed my people; from their ways they did not turn back.

• Jeremiah 31:10

  Hear the word of YHWH, nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away, and say: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

• Jeremiah 49:32

  And their camels will become plunder, and the multitude of their livestock spoil; and I will scatter them to every wind, those clipped at the temples; and from all its sides I will bring their calamity, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 49:36

  And I will bring upon Elam four winds from the four ends of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will be no nation to which those driven out of Elam will not come.

• Jeremiah 51:2

  And I will send to Babylon strangers, and they will winnow her, and they will empty her land; for they will be against her all around in the day of evil.

• Ezekiel 5:2

  A third you will burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and you will take a third and strike it with the sword all around it; and a third you will scatter to the wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 5:10

  Therefore fathers will eat sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers; and I will carry out judgments on you, and I will scatter all your remnant to every wind.

• Ezekiel 5:12

  A third of you will die by pestilence and be consumed by famine in your midst; and a third will fall by the sword all around you; and a third to every wind I will scatter, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 6:5

  And I will lay the corpses of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

• Ezekiel 6:8

  But I will leave a remnant, in that you will have those who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered in the lands.

• Ezekiel 12:14

  And all who are around him as his help and all his troops I will scatter to every wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 12:15

  And they will know that I am YHWH, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them in the lands.

• Ezekiel 20:23

  I also raised my hand to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the lands,

• Ezekiel 22:15

  And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the lands, and I will bring to an end your uncleanness out of you.

• Ezekiel 29:12

  And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities, in the midst of ruined cities, will be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them through the lands.

• Ezekiel 30:23

  And I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them through the lands.

• Ezekiel 30:26

  And I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them through the lands; and they will know that I am YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 36:19

  And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the lands; according to their way and according to their deeds I judged them.

• Zechariah 1:19

  And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

• Zechariah 1:21

  And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, saying, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one lifted up his head; and these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who lift up a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

• Malachi 2:3

  Look, I am rebuking the seed because of you, and I will scatter dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts; and one will carry you to it.

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