Word

διασπορά

diasporá · G1290 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

region in which people are scattered, diaspora

(Derivative of διασπείρω ‘to scatter,’) The region or area in which persons have been scattered (particularly a reference to the nation of Israel which had been scattered throughout the ancient world)

Examples
John 7:35 The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this Man intend to go that we will not find Him? He does not intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, does He?
James 1:1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as strangers, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 6 groups

ΓαλατίαGalatia 1
ἝλληνGreek, Gentile 1
ΚαππαδοκίαCappadocia 1
Πόντοςa sea 1
ἈσίαAsia 1
ΒιθυνίαBithynia 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

φυλήtribe, nation, people 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto 2
ἐνin 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

παρεπίδημοςalien 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Region in which people are scattered, diaspora15.137: Used as a technical term for Jews living outside the Jewish homeland, as of the crowd's puzzled question whether Jesus intends to go teach the Dispersion among the Greeks in John 7:35, and the letters addressed to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion in James 1:1 and to those scattered as strangers in 1 Peter 1:1.

Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σπείρω speírō · G4687 · to sow · 53×σπέρμα spérma · G4690 · seed, posterity, descendants · 44×σπόρος spóros · G4703 · seed · 5×σπυρίς spyrís · G4711 · large basket · 5×διασπείρω diaspeírō · G1289 · to scatter, to cause to disperse · 3×διασποράdiasporá · G1290σπόριμος spórimos · G4702 · standing grain, grain fields · 3×σπερμολόγος spermológos · G4691 · ignorant show-off, charlatan, foolish babbler · 1×σπορά sporá · G4701 · parentage · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διασπορᾶς, ἡ (διασπείρω, cf. such words as ἀγορά, διαφθορά) (Vulg.dispersio), a…

διασπορᾶς, ἡ (διασπείρω, cf. such words as ἀγορά, διαφθορά) (Vulg.dispersio), a scattering, dispersion: ἀτομων, opposed to σύμμιξις καί παραζευξις, Plutarch, mor., p. 1105 a.; in the Sept. used of the Israelites dispersed among foreign nations, Deut 28:25; Deut 30:4; especially of their Babylonian exile, Jer 41:17; Isa 49:6; Judith 5:19; abstract for concrete of the exiles themselves, Ps 146:2 (equivalent to (נִדְחִים, expelled, outcasts); 2 Macc. 1:27; εἰς τήν διασποράν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, unto those dispersed among the Greeks (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 a.), Jn 7:35. Transferred to Christians (i. e. Jewish Christians (?)) scattered abroad among the Gentiles: Jas 1:1 (ἐν τῇ διασπορά, namely, οὖσι); παρεπίδημοί διασπορᾶς Πόντου, sojourners far away from home, in Pontus, 1 Pet 1:1 (see παρεπίδημος). (BB. DD. under the word ; especially Schürer, N. T. Zeitgeseh. § 31.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Disperse, Scatter3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0