Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
The 1611 reading
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them downe, O LORD our shield.
KJV dictionary & concordance
To disperse, spread abroad, separate, drive away, divide, cast in different directions, or cause persons, peoples, seed, goods, or forces no longer to remain gathered.
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First occurrence: Genesis 11:9
Complete exact-word concordance
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them downe, O LORD our shield.
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Rebuke the company of spearemen, the multitude of the bulles, with the calues of the people, till euery one submit himselfe with pieces of siluer: scatter thou the people that delite in warre.
1611 marginal noteOr, the beast of the reeds.
1611 marginal noteOr, be scattereth.
To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
To ouerthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
1611 marginal noteHeb. to make them fall.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and destroy them.
1611 marginal notePsal. 18.13,14.
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