Strong's Greek: 1290. διασπορά (diaspora) -- a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries)

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Lexical Summary

diaspora: a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries)

Original Word: διασπορά
Transliteration: diaspora
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-por-ah')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries)
Meaning: a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries)

Strong's Concordance

diaspora, a dispersion

From diaspeiro; dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries -- (which are) scattered (abroad).

see GREEK diaspeiro

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1290: διασπορά

διασπορά, 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, Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 30:4; especially of their Babylonian exile, Jeremiah 41:17 (); Isaiah 49:6; Judith 5:19; abstract for concrete of the exiles themselves, Psalm 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.), John 7:35. Transferred to Christians (i. e. Jewish Christians (?)) scattered abroad among the Gentiles: James 1:1 (ἐν τῇ διασπορά, namely, οὖσι); παρεπίδημοί διασπορᾶς Πόντου, sojourners far away from home, in Pontus, 1 Peter 1:1 (see παρεπίδημος). (BB. DD. under the word ; especially Schürer, N. T. Zeitgeseh. § 31.)

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