Disperse
Bible Usage:
- Disperse used 8 times.
- dispersed used 10 times.
- dispersions used once.
- First Reference: 1 Samuel 14:34
- Last Reference: Ezekiel 30:26
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2219 Used 7 times
DISPERSE, verb transitive dispers. [Latin , to scatter.]
1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into different parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
2. To diffuse; to spread.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Proverbs 15:7.
3. To dissipate; as, the fog or the cloud is dispersed.
4. To distribute.
DISPERSE, verb intransitive dispers.
1. To be scattered; to separate; to go or move into different parts; as, the company dispersed at ten oclock.
2. To be scattered; to vanish; as fog or vapors.
DISPERSED, participle passive Scattered; driven apart; diffused; dissipated.
DISPERSEDLYB, adverb In a dispersed manner; separately.
DISPERSEDNESS, noun The state of being dispersed or scattered.
DISPERSENESS, noun Thinness; a scattered state. [Little used.]
DISPERSER, noun One who disperses; as the disperser of libels.