Zarah means “winnow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2219 — zyme (“leaven”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2219 זָרָה (zarah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zarah (zaw-raw') v. 1. to toss about 2. (by implication) to diffuse, winnow It has 38 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include scatter, disperse, scattered, about, and away. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
zarah (zaw-raw') v. 1. to toss about 2. (by implication) to diffuse, winnow [a primitive root] KJV: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow. Compare: H2114
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2219. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to scatter
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zarah, 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.
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38 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
First 38 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2219.
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
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Zarah (Strong's H2219) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "winnow". zarah (zaw-raw') v. 1. to toss about 2. (by implication) to diffuse, winnow
This page currently indexes 38 linked usages for Strong's H2219 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2219 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as scatter, disperse, scattered, about, away, and cast. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.