noun · feminine
diasporas
Strong’sG1290
dispersion
stem diaspor-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δια-σπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< διασπείρω), [in LXX of Israelites dispersed and exiled in foreign lands, as De 28:25 (זַעֲוָה) 30:4 (נדח ni.), Is 49:6 (נער); by meton., of the exiles themselves (as Ps 146 (147):2, II Mac 1:27);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1290 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-as-por-ah'
dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries
Fromfrom G1289;
King James(which are) scattered (abroad).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(διασπείρω) scattering, dispersion, LXX+1st c.AD+
2 collectively, ={οἱ διεσπαρμένοι}, LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | diasporas | diasporais |
| object accusative | diasporan1×διασπορὰν | diasporain |
| direct address vocative | diasporar | diasporair |
| of, belonging to genitive | diasporau1×διασπορᾶς | diasporaiu |
| to, for dative | diaspora1×διασπορᾷ | diasporai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
diaspora is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
diasporan“dispersion”objectaccusative singular1×
John 7:35“dispersion”… ouk heuriskani auton? mē eis tan diasporan toiu Hellēnoiu mellatō poreuorō kai didaskarō …… He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
diasporau“dispersion”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 1:1Petros apostolos Iēsu Christou eklektoi parepidēmoi diasporau Pontou, Galatiau, Kappadokiau, Asiau, kai Bithuniau,… elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and …
diaspora“dispersion”to, fordative singular1×
James 1:1… tai dōdeka fulai tai en ta diaspora chairarō.… To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.