pazar · scatter

What it means

pazar (פָּזַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scatter”.

To scatter, to disperse.

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, or give out to the poor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• scattered ×8
• he scatters ×1
• one who scatters ×1

Where it appears

• Esther×1
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Joel×1

• Esther 3:8

  And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of every people, and the king’s laws they do not keep; and for the king it is not worthwhile to leave them alone.

• Psalms 53:5

  There they were filled with dread where there was no dread, for Elohim scattered the bones of the one who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for Elohim despised them.

• Psalms 89:10

  You crushed Rahab like one pierced; with the arm of your strength you scattered your enemies.

• Psalms 112:9

  He has scattered, he has given to the needy; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be exalted in glory.

• Psalms 141:7

  As one who plows and breaks open the earth, our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

• Psalms 147:16

  He gives snow like wool; frost like ashes he scatters.

• Proverbs 11:24

  There is one who scatters and gains even more, and one who withholds more than is right comes only to need.

• Jeremiah 3:13

  Only know your iniquity, that against YHWH your Elohim you have transgressed, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every leafy tree, and my voice you have not heeded, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 50:17

  A scattered sheep is Israel; lions have driven it away; the first devoured it, the king of Assyria; and this last one has gnawed its bones, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

• Joel 3:2

  I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and my land they divided up.