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scattered

Meaning of “scattered”

Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of scatter, meaning 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 11:4

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Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Genesis 11:4 · retained source text

And they said; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whose top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest we be scattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Genesis 11:8 · retained source text

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.

Numbers 10:35
And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
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1611 witness · Numbers 10:35 · retained source text

And it came to passe when the Arke set forward, that Moses said, Rise vp LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee before thee.

1611 marginal notePsal. 68.1,2.

Deuteronomy 30:3
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 30:3 · retained source text

That then the LORD thy God will turne thy captiuitie, and haue compassion vpon thee, and wil returne and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

1 Samuel 11:11
And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 11:11 · retained source text

And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three cōpanies, and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slewe the Ammonites, vntill the heat of the day: and it came to passe, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

1 Samuel 13:8
¶ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 13:8 · retained source text

¶ And he taried seuen dayes, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him.

1611 marginal noteChap. 10.8.

1 Samuel 13:11
¶ And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 13:11 · retained source text

¶ And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I sawe that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the dayes appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselues together to Michmash:

2 Samuel 18:8
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 18:8 · retained source text

For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured.

1611 marginal noteHebr. multiplied to deuoure.

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