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Strong's H6327 פּוּץ (puts)

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

Strong's Number H6327
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 66
Books 20

Strong's H6327 Quick Answer

Strong's H6327 פּוּץ (puwts) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. puwts (poots) v. 1. to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) [a primitive root] It has 66 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include scattered, scatter, disperse, abroad, and cast. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
puwts (poots) v. 1. to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) [a primitive root]
Usage
66 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
scattered, scatter, disperse, abroad, and cast

Meaning and Definition

puwts (poots) v. 1. to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) [a primitive root] KJV: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.

Original Word
פּוּץ
Transliteration
puwts
Derivation
Root: פוץ
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6327. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to scatter

Usage: 1) to scatter, be dispersed, be scattered 1a) (Qal) to be dispersed, be scattered 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be scattered 1b2) to be spread abroad 1c) (Hiphil) to scatter 1d) Hithpael) scatter

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How Strong's H6327 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render puwts, 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 Genesis 11:4 30× scatter Genesis 11:9 Disperse 1 Samuel 14:34 abroad Exodus 5:12 cast 2 Samuel 20:22 pieces Job 16:12 scattereth Job 37:11 dasheth Nahum 2:1 drive Job 18:11 were Genesis 10:18 will Genesis 49:7

How Strong's H6327 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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 Old Testament with 66 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6327 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 H6327 in the Old Testament

66 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 10:18 KJV

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

Genesis 11:4 KJV

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.

Genesis 11:8 KJV

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

Usage Excerpts

First 66 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6327.

Genesis 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Genesis 11:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Genesis 11:8 Old Testament, KJV
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:9 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 49:7 Old Testament, KJV
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Exodus 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Numbers 10:35 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Deuteronomy 4:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
Deuteronomy 28:64 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 30:3 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Samuel 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Samuel 13:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 Samuel 14:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
2 Samuel 18:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Samuel 20:22 Old Testament, KJV
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
2 Samuel 22:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
1 Kings 22:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
2 Kings 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
2 Chronicles 18:16 Old Testament, KJV
Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
Nehemiah 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 16:12 Old Testament, KJV
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job 18:11 Old Testament, KJV
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Job 37:11 Old Testament, KJV
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
Job 38:24 Old Testament, KJV
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Job 40:11 Old Testament, KJV
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Psalms 18:14 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Psalms 68:1 Old Testament, KJV
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
Psalms 144:6 Old Testament, KJV
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Proverbs 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Isaiah 24:1 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 28:25 Old Testament, KJV
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
Isaiah 41:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah 10:21 Old Testament, KJV
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Jeremiah 13:24 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 18:17 Old Testament, KJV
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jeremiah 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:2 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:29 Old Testament, KJV
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 30:11 Old Testament, KJV
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Jeremiah 40:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Jeremiah 52:8 Old Testament, KJV
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 11:16 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
Ezekiel 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:15 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
Ezekiel 20:23 Old Testament, KJV
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;
Ezekiel 20:34 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Ezekiel 20:41 Old Testament, KJV
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Ezekiel 22:15 Old Testament, KJV
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Ezekiel 28:25 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
Ezekiel 29:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 29:13 Old Testament, KJV
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
Ezekiel 30:23 Old Testament, KJV
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel 30:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 34:5 Old Testament, KJV
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
Ezekiel 34:6 Old Testament, KJV
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Ezekiel 34:12 Old Testament, KJV
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Ezekiel 34:21 Old Testament, KJV
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Ezekiel 36:19 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 46:18 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Nahum 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
Habakkuk 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Habakkuk 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Zephaniah 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
Zechariah 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 13:7 Old Testament, KJV
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6327, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 5 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 18 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H6327 FAQ

What does puts (פּוּץ) mean?

Puts (Strong's H6327) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "drive". puwts (poots) v. 1. to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) [a primitive root]

How many times is puts (פּוּץ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 66 linked usages for Strong's H6327 across 20 books.

Where can I study puts (פּוּץ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6327 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate puts (פּוּץ)?

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