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Strong's G1287 διασκορπίζω (diaskorpizo)

Diaskorpizo means “dissipate” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1287 — borith (“sope”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1287
Language Greek
Linked Usages 56
Books 16

Strong's G1287 Quick Answer

Strong's G1287 διασκορπίζω (diaskorpizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. diaskorpizo (dee-as-kor-pid'-zo) v. 1. to dissipate 2. (genitive case) to rout or separate It has 56 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include scattered. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
diaskorpizo (dee-as-kor-pid'-zo) v. 1. to dissipate 2. (genitive case) to rout or separate
Usage
56 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
scattered

Meaning and Definition

diaskorpizo (dee-as-kor-pid'-zo) v. 1. to dissipate 2. (genitive case) to rout or separate 3. (specially) to winnow 4. (figuratively) to squander [from G1223 and G4650] KJV: disperse, scatter (abroad), strew, waste Root(s): G1223, G4650

Original Word
διασκορπίζω
Transliteration
diaskorpizo
Derivation
Root: σκορπίζω R1: 1223 R2: 4650
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1287. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to scatter

Usage: δια-σκορπίζω [in LXX for פּוּץ, זָרָה, etc. ;] to scatter abroad, disperse: of sheep, Mat.26:31 = Mrk.14:27" (LXX) ; of persons, Luk.1:51, Act.5:37, opposite to συνάγω, Jhn.11:52; of winnowing grain, Mat.25:24, 26; metaphorically, of property, to squander, waste: Luk.15:13 16:1.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1287 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render diaskorpizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

scattered Matthew 26:31

How Strong's G1287 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 43 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1287 (διασκορπίζω) appears 53 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1287 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1287 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 25:24 KJV

Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

Matthew 25:26 KJV

His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

Matthew 26:31 KJV

Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

Strong's G1287 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

43 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Numbers 10:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered: let all that hate thee flee.

Deuteronomy 30:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thy face, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, wherein the Lord shall have scattered thee,

Deuteronomy 30:3 Septuagint / Brenton

then the Lord shall heal thine iniquities, and shall pity thee, and shall again gather thee out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered thee.

Strong's G1287 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 3:4 Septuagint / Brenton

for they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

Tobit 13:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And he will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again, and will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath scattered us.

Tobit 14:4 Septuagint / Brenton

Go into Media, my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;

Usage Excerpts

First 56 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1287.

Numbers 10:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered: let all that hate thee flee.
Deuteronomy 30:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thy face, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, wherein the Lord shall have scattered thee,
Deuteronomy 30:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the Lord shall heal thine iniquities, and shall pity thee, and shall again gather thee out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered thee.
Nehemiah 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
Job 37:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a cloud obscures what is precious to him, His light will disperse the cloud.
Psalms 21:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are loosened: My heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.
Psalms 52:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For God has scattered the bones of the men pleasers; They were ashamed, for God despised them.
Psalms 58:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Slay them not, lest they forget thy law; Scatter them by thy power; And bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
Psalms 58:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall be scattered hither and thither for meat; And if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.
Psalms 67:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; And let them that hate him flee from before him.
Psalms 67:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: Let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, So that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: Scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.
Psalms 88:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast brought down the proud as one that is slain; And with the arm of thy power thou hast scattered thine enemies.
Psalms 91:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; And all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
Psalms 105:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to cast down their seed among the nations, And to scatter them in the countries.
Psalms 140:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, Our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.
Jeremiah 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
Jeremiah 10:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the sheep have been scattered.
Jeremiah 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity to save them from destruction.
Jeremiah 23:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!
Jeremiah 23:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord against them that tend my people; Ye have scattered my sheep, and driven them out, and ye have not visited them: behold, I will take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.
Jeremiah 27:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
a sword upon their warriors, and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
Jeremiah 28:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee.
Jeremiah 28:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by thee I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
Jeremiah 28:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man and woman.
Jeremiah 28:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.
Ezekiel 5:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A fourth part thou shalt burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: and a fourth part thou shalt cut with a sword round about it: and a fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore the fathers shall eat their children in the midst of thee, and children shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter all that are left of thee to every wind.
Ezekiel 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will scatter your bones round about your altars,
Ezekiel 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Ezekiel 11:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.
Ezekiel 12:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them in the countries.
Ezekiel 20:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;
Ezekiel 20:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.
Ezekiel 20:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savor, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries wherein ye have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 22:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and thy uncleanness shall be removed out of thee.
Ezekiel 28:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God; I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezekiel 29:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered;
Ezekiel 46:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the prince shall by no means take of the inheritance of the people, to oppress them: he shall give an inheritance to his sons out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered, every one from his possession.
Daniel 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.
Daniel 11:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall enter with prosperity, and that into fertile districts; and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers’ fathers have not done; he shall scatter among them plunder, and spoils, and wealth; and he shall devise plans against Egypt, even for a time.
Zechariah 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said to the angel that spoke with me, What are these things, my lord? And he said to me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah, and Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah 2:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Judah, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.
Zechariah 11:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall dislocate the joints of their necks.
Matthew 25:24 New Testament, KJV
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Matthew 25:26 New Testament, KJV
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Matthew 26:31 New Testament, KJV
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Mark 14:27 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
Luke 1:51 New Testament, KJV
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke 15:13 New Testament, KJV
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke 16:1 New Testament, KJV
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
John 11:52 New Testament, KJV
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Acts 5:37 New Testament, KJV
After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
Tobit 3:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
Tobit 13:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again, and will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath scattered us.
Tobit 14:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Go into Media, my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;
Wisdom of Sirach 48:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For all this the people repented not, Neither departed they from their sins, Till they were spoiled and carried out of their land, And were scattered through all the earth: Yet there remained a small people, And a ruler in the house of David:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1287, grouped by book.

Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1287 FAQ

What does diaskorpizo (διασκορπίζω) mean?

Diaskorpizo (Strong's G1287) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dissipate". diaskorpizo (dee-as-kor-pid'-zo) v. 1. to dissipate 2. (genitive case) to rout or separate

How many times is diaskorpizo (διασκορπίζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 56 linked usages for Strong's G1287 across 16 books.

Where can I study diaskorpizo (διασκορπίζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1287 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate diaskorpizo (διασκορπίζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as scattered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1287 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 43 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1287, with linked reader references where each row is available.