Strong's Definition
a primitive root (compare 2114); to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
KJV Usage: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
זָרָה (za.rah) — to scatter. 1) to scatter, fan, cast away, winnow, disperse, compass, spread, be scattered, be dispersed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to scatter 1a2) to fan, winnow 1b) (Niphal) to be scattered, be dispersed 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to scatter, disperse (intensive of Qal) 1c2) to winnow, sift 1d) (Pual) to be scattered, be spread out
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִזְרֶה · מְזָרִים
Scatter | verb qal, verb pi, verb pu'al
to scatter, to spread = causative action by which humans cause a substance or a set of small objects to divide itself and move into various directions
EXO 32:20 · NUM 17:2 · JOB 18:15 · PSA 106:27 · ISA 30:22 · JER 49:36 · EZK 5:2 · EZK 6:5
Scatter | verb pi, verb nif
to disperse = causative action by which deities cause a group of people to divide itself and move into various directions
LEV 26:33 · 1KI 14:15 · PSA 44:12 · JER 31:10 · JER 49:32 · EZK 5:10 · EZK 5:12 · EZK 6:8 · EZK 12:14 · EZK 12:15 · EZK 20:23 · EZK 22:15 · EZK 29:12 · EZK 30:23 · EZK 30:26 · EZK 36:19 · ZEC 2:2 · ZEC 2:4 · ZEC 2:4
Clean | verb qal
to winnow = causative action by which humans throw grain into the air so that the wind will remove the chaff
Non-Contain | verb pi
to winnow (a city) literally: to winnow (a city); hence: = causative action by which a city is destroyed and emptied of its inhabitants ◄ as grain is winnowed by throwing it up into the air so that the wind can blow away the chaff
Know | verb pi
to discern, to be conscious of = a process by which humans obtain knowledge about something ◄ by mentally winnowing it, in order to find out what is good and what is bad
Know | verb pi
to spread (knowledge), to disseminate = causative action by which humans cause certain information to reach others
Cover | verb pi
to spread = causative action by which humans apply a substance evenly over a surface
Cover | verb pu'al
to spread out = causative action by which a net is opened out so as to be able to cover the largest possible area
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[זָרָה] vb. scatter, fan, winnow (Ar. Arabic cause to fly, scatter (of wind), winnow; Aram. דְּרָא, Syriac; Eth. Ethiopic)— Qal scatter, the powder into which the golden calf was ground
fan, winnow
Niph. be scattered, dispersed, of Israel
Pi. (intens. of Qal) scatter, disperse, esp. of peoples
winnow, sift
Pu. be scattered
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